On 29 Jun 2022, at 10:42, Aaron Rosenzweig via Webobjects-dev <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> It’s not a completely different issue is it? > > If anyone builds Wonder as part of their CI/CD and is currently using ANT, > they will need to switch to Maven going forward. Is that how you build Aaron, or just a hypothetical? (Part of the problem is that these days we don't even know who everyone is, let alone what they're doing!) > While we wish everyone who makes changes to Wonder would make pull requests > to integrate them but that doesn’t always happen. Those teams essentially > have a fork of Wonder that they periodically merge public changes into and > build with ANT. > > That said, I can understand why many don’t want to support ANT anymore when > they don’t even use it. If Maven is the future then people will have to > change. At some point the issue just comes down to motivated manpower: there's just no one left to support the Ant build. It hasn't worked on Jenkins for months, but no one noticed and no one has the motivation to fix it. I think this is less of an active decision to drop Ant support, but rather a passive realisation that there's just no one that's going to do the work. > Question… I thought Maven was old-hotness once Gradle stepped in? If we are > talking about moving on, why isn’t Gradle on the table? Again, it's just motivated manpower: who would build a Gradle plug-in? -- Paul Hoadley https://logicsquad.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/
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