On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 9:10 PM Jim Jagielski wrote:
> There are some java apps that no longer support ant and
> instead rely on maven. Last I checked, I don't think we
> support that, do we?
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But why are we compiling Java projects?
We compile C/C++ projects because (1) upstream often doesn't provide
binaries, and/or (2) we need to patch the source.
For Java projects, (1) is almost universally false, and (2) is often false.
Why can't we just download and use the upstream .jar files in those cases,
instead of needing Maven to build the source ourselves?
Regards
Damjan
