Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle?

2016-03-28 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hi Raja, I think this question arises on this user list every now and then. I even think there have been some effort to create a pom.xml for tomcat, but without great success (after few replies you can imagine why). Personally I totally understand you. From what I see ant is totally gone and has

Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle?

2016-03-28 Thread David kerber
On 3/28/2016 2:18 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: George Sexton [mailto:geor...@mhsoftware.com] Subject: Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle? In my opinion (and it's probably not shared by many, but I don't care), Maven sucks.

RE: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle?

2016-03-28 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: George Sexton [mailto:geor...@mhsoftware.com] > Subject: Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build > configuration? why not maven or gradle? > In my opinion (and it's probably not shared by many, but I don't care), > Maven sucks. +many to that Another "solution" in

Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle?

2016-03-28 Thread George Sexton
On 3/28/2016 9:57 AM, Raja Anbazhagan wrote: I'm new to tomcat project and I wanted to take a look at the code base to see if I can contribute in any which ways. But after going through the build process and setting up every other tools used to build ant, I'm a bit frustrated. Why didnt we

Re: Why the tomcat source code uses obsolete ant build configuration? why not maven or gradle?

2016-03-28 Thread Christopher Schultz
Raja, On 3/28/16 11:57 AM, Raja Anbazhagan wrote: > I'm new to tomcat project and I wanted to take a look at the code base to > see if I can contribute in any which ways. But after going through the > build process and setting up every other tools used to build ant, I'm a bit > frustrated. > >