i hear your arguments and agree with them in the abstract. however, i really dislike the idea of making wicket dependent on installing maven if we can prebuild things so they work with ant. 99% of java developers know ant and have it installed. it may be the best tool in the world, but maven is not ubiquitous and we'll definitely lose some portion of our audience if we require maven to build. can we have some compromise like rigging the ant script so that the default build target will use maven if it's installed to drag down new libs, but have everything still work by default?
Martijn Dashorst wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to stir up a discussion on the committing of dependend libraries in CVS. Currently all projects have their dependencies (i.e. concurrent.jar, etc.) also in the lib directory in CVS. I consider this to be wrong. This is not necessary for building a release, nor building wicket. Maven is *the* build tool of choice to build wicket (and/or its sub projects) from CVS. When releasing wicket into a ZIP file, the libraries are included using a maven script which will copy all relevant jars from the local maven repository into the lib folder. This ensures that the dependencies are always in par with the documented dependencies.
Why am I opposed to putting the dependencies also in CVS? because it creates an additional burden on keeping these libraries in synch with the project.xml. When a library (for instance wicket-xxx.jar) is upgraded in the project.xml when performing a release, the releasemanager has to keep track of the lib directory as well. This is not good, as many errors can be made in the process.
I urge all project maintainers to remove the lib directories from CVS and to keep it that way.
There is 1 exception to this rule: clover, as it is a special library with a license included, which can not be obtained through the default maven repository.
With regards,
Martijn Dashorst
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