On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:20 +0200, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I agree with you - Maven is the better tool to use. But forcing everyone > to use Maven at this stage might be a bit demotivating. We are quite > happy to get development rolling again and if we find time after the > first few releases we switch over to Maven. I suggest that we are > supporting ANT as plain-vanilla build tool and Maven doing the > full-fledged reporting in the meantime.
Yes, this is why we've had both Maven and Ant builds for a while now. Additionally, users may depend upon the Ant build. For instance, my company patches and builds XML-RPC as part of our product, using XML- RPC's existing Ant build file. Removing it would be akin to breaking backwards compatibility with an API!
