----- Original Message ----- From: "Warner Onstine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: mavenize tomcat
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Costin Manolache" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:50 PM > Subject: Re: mavenize tomcat > > > > Warner Onstine wrote: > > > > > So, If I can get significant developer buy-in I would be willing to cut > a > > > version or two of the maven project descriptor for those of us who would > > > like it to be easy again ;-). If not, that's fine. > > > > As long as you don't change build.xml or the gump descriptors - I'm > > ok. > > With the new Maven, it isn't necessary, it now only uses Ant under the > covers with Jelly and Werkz tags doing the work with the POM (Project Object > Model). > So far the people that have replied (including me) think that it is Ok to Mavenize Tomcat as long as it doesn't force anyone to use Maven. I, personally, didn't find it very challenging to download the 4.1.13 source distribution (to a machine behind a firewall), and configure it to build including the optional libraries. I really *don't* want to be forced to download nMB of code to do what I can do with a couple of minutes with emacs. > > > > FYI, tomcat5 does have a 'download' target that gets you all the > > jars, and an 'update' that gets you all the cvs repositories that > > you need. That's what I use, and it's not that bad ( even if slow ) > > Interesting, sounds like it is duplicating what Maven can do as it stores > all the jars in a common repository. IMHO, it is better. The 'download' target gets the jars from the project release itself. If you don't like one version, you can change your build.properties to download another version. On this count, Maven sounds little better than jars-in-cvs (which we all know is A Very Bad Thing © Gump :). > > -warner > > > > > > > -- > > Costin > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
