On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:32 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 26/02/2007, at 12:55 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>> * We joined the club of gullible people who bought into the Maven
>> hype (I thought such thing would never happen to me :-)), so now
>> we have a common (though crappy) platform for integration of the
>> code from different projects up and down stream. I remember how
>> much pain it was to create Maven artifacts out of Ant Cayenne in
>> the past.
>
> Is it that important? Surely we want to be able to make clear
> decisions about when we want to import a new version of a jar into
> Cayenne. We import that file, test appropriately, then commit when
> ready. As for downstream - do we care that much?
Maven integration is VERY important. Even aside from our early
efforts to integrate with OpenEJB/Geronimo, which are all maven,
there are more people than you would think who are using Cayenne-
Maven. How we do the integration is irrelevant though. If we can
provide quality and timely Maven artifact builds, build by Ant, fine.
>> * Maven popularity leaves some (if not much) hope that it will be
>> fixed someday. (OT: believe it or not, even WebObjects developers
>> are considering Maven these days!!!)
>
> Maybe maven will improve. Or maybe its problems are so structural
> that it will just be tweaked around the edges and more features
> added to it. Maybe the problem is that (like ant) it is trying to
> use XML as a programming/scripting language and failing. But unlike
> ant, you end up with an XML file nested 25 levels deep and quite
> incomprehensible. I've never understood why the build script is a
> good place to keep the timezone in which each developer lives.
I am not arguing that Maven sucks, in fact I agreed in the quoted
message :-)
> If ant was to be used again, I'd be happy to donate any parts of
> our ant scripts (to do things like build .dmg, integrate subversion
> build numbers into the manifest, etc) which we use here internally.
> Some parts might be useful.
While I admitted that I wasted mine and everybody else's time with
Maven migration, I refuse to do it again :-) But this shouldn't stop
better alternatives from being created [1] (and taking place of Maven
when ready). My requirements for the new system would be this:
* It should provide all current build and release functionality (Duh!)
* It should sit in a separate branch until it is ready 100%,
* It should support the current module layout
* It should provide a way to publish Maven artifacts
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html
Andrus
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