Mark Struberg has started work to improve the incremental behavior of e.g. the compiler plugin. Version 3.0 of maven-compiler-plugin includes an early version of that new library. There was a thread about this, started by Mark, on the dev list some ago if you want to read about it.
Mark has also written a wiki page [1] on this work. /Anders [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/MAVEN/incremental-builds.html On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On his blog, Lex Spoon makes some interesting points against most > build systems, using Maven as an example: > http://blog.lexspoon.org/2012/12/recursive-maven-considered-harmful.html > In related news, I've heard people complain about “insanely long build > times via building unnecessary things” and tracking down the cause to > being Maven, to the extent that they're thinking about making their > own build system (many are Xooglers and they probably would like. > > I've made some proposals for improvements in the comments of Lex's > post, and I'm eager to know what other people think, particularly > Maven core developers/contributors. Has this been ever discussed? If > yes, is this planned or has it been dismissed? In the latter case, for > which reasons? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Thomas Broyer > /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/ <http://xn--nna.ma.xn--bwa-xxb.je/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
