Am Dienstag, den 01.04.2008, 01:14 +0200 schrieb Stefano Bagnara: > Bernd Fondermann ha scritto: > >> why not just use an ant script for offline builds? > > > > +1 > > > > the website generation aspect excluded, I don't get it why removing > > maven is not already discussed as an obvious option here. > > if we find that maven causes us non-technical problems - and this > > thread is definitively proving this - , we are free to not use it. > > I downloaded the 0.9.5er source distribution today and it does not > > build with ant, only maven. it downloads a ridiculous large number of > > jars for very little effect. I remember that I +1'ed maven usage for > > building the site. but (hereby also answering a prev question asked on > > this thread) the rest should work with ant and offline, please. :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bernd > > The main build tool for jSPF has always been maven. The build.xml that > was there has been requested by someone and it was created automatically > by maven. I was against it because I know the ant plugin for maven was > not so good and the resulting build.xml was to be maintained (and as you > see it doesn't work). BTW it was intended as a facility for people not > having maven and not as *the* build tool for jSPF. I just updated the > dependency versions inside that file so it should work now. Having to > update the build.xml manually each time we change the pom.xml is a PITA > (we're going to forget this at each release): any better option? > > Other products we ships use ant as their build tool, but jSPF always > used maven, since the first checkin. IIRC we didn't had the vote you are > referring about using maven for the website build and ant for the source > build for jSPF. > > Here is my -0 for moving to ant as the main build tool for jSPF. This > move would simply increase the complexity of managing jSPF lifecycle for me. > > Stefano >
-0 from me too... Cheers Norman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
