I agree with you on that...it is kinda of a one size fits all...but that
is a positive and a negative. I'm thinking we should support both ant and
maven for a while until everyone is comfortable with maven. nice thing
with maven is if you want to use ant just do "mvn ant:ant" and it will
generate an ant build file for you, although you still need to have a maven
repository installed.
I rolled maven out on a project sometime back and it took a little while for
us all to feel comfortable with it. My goal at the time was to ensure
that we had quality checkpoints prior to check in. With maven it was easy to
enforce a test-driven approach and to ensure everyone was using the
same workstation configuration while still allowing them to use whatever ide
they wished.
From an opensource perspective, Im hoping maven will make it even easier to
download and use jsftemplating. when all you have to do is add it to your
pom.xml (my famous last words!!) it's pretty easy to get up and running
quickly.
We can also use it to generate documentation and project metrics that should
be useful to the whole team.
On 5/30/07, Jason Lee <jason_at_steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/30/07, Frederick Brock <frederick.brock_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > and removing the reference to "lib/ant-apt.jar" in my build.xml is was
> > able to build successfully. After discussing this with ken via IRC we came
> > to the conclusion that it would probably be a good time to drop support for
> > ant 1.6.5 and support 1.7. This change would require that we modify the
> > build files accordingly.
> >
>
> +1
>
>
> Any thoughts? My vote is to drop support for 1.6.5 and move to 1.7 and
> > further on to maven 2 which I will be presenting at the next developers
> > meeting.
> >
>
>
> I'm a bit leary of maven2. I know that everyone and his dog is leaving
> ant, and feel I may have to do that as well at some point, but it seems
> maven is a pain to work with should one deviate from The One True Way.
> Having said that, I'm not going to quit the project should everyone decide
> maven's the way to go, and who knows? I may become a maven convert if/when
> the conversion happens. :P
>
> --
> Jason Lee, SCJP
> JSF RI Dev Team
> http://blogs.steeplesoft.com
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Frederick R. Brock
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