On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]> wrote: > But yes all plugins should have an update/incremental behavior but it's not > easy to do because there are many factors that may require to rebuild some > parts of your project (You may edit your settings.xml, a pom.xml ....). > It's not (sadly) as simple as one source file -> one compiled file because > of all things possible with java (inner-classes, code generation from > annotations ...) or with some additional libs. The problem is that an > incremental build that mostly work may be worst than no incremental build > at all because instead of loosing always many time to have a secured result > you can regularly lost a lot of time because of a random behavior.
There are bugs in every piece of software. Put the new incremental behavior behind a flag to make it easy to revert to the old (current) behavior and should be done. Most plugins already try to detect when they need to do do work, so it's more an evolution (that can be disable-able) than a revolution/rewrite. > Otherwise I'm agree with the blog post and would dream to have something as > performant as what we can have with make. Let's all move back to Make! :-P --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
