I'm enthused about smoothing out the build process and thinning out the jar
file.
We currently say that we target JDK 1.3 and above. Maybe we should amend
this? Compile with JDK 1.4 but runs with JDK 1.3+
If you redo the build process can you also edit this?
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/build.html
WILL
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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: hometree.jakarta.velocity.dev
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: Velocity ant build vs. Velocity maven build
Hi,
I've investigated lately the various ways to build the Velocity
jar. To my surprise, I found out that "maven jar" and "cd build ; ant
jar" create different results.
The maven build contains the DataSourceResourceLoader.class which is
only in the velocity-J2EE.
That differentiation made sense with JDK 1.3 but with JDK 1.4 and
above, it is no longer necessary.
Also, the maven built jar contains LICENSE.txt. ant build does not.
My questions now are:
- in the README.txt, there is still the ant build the canonical one. Is
this
true?
- There is http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-147. I've
attached
a patch to this issue to fix the problems. Will, can you please apply
this?
- Do we want the ant build to stay the primary build? I've worked on the
build system on a private fork for quite a while and I'm quite confident
that using maven is an improvement. See
http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/demo/velocity/ for an example (this
is from an internal tree, so some classes differ from the "official"
ones.
Note that the layout is still "vanilla maven". Using a style sheet should
make it possible to get the current velocity site layout back.
- This would also enable to move the whole org.apache.velocity.test
package
out of the jar into maven driven unit tests. We can still keep the ant
driven tests, but the classes would no longer go into the velocity.jar
thus reducing its size a bit.
I'd like to work on the velocity build system a bit, because currently
this
is an issue for me in a project. Are there any concerns about this?
Best regards
Henning
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