Re: [VOTE] Use Maven as official build tool

[Sam Ruby]

Jason van Zyl wrote:

I could certainly give instructions to anyone who wanted to try and
duplicate exactly what Gump does but I don't think many projects will be
that interested to be honest. Continuum will definitely work more along
the lines of Cruise Control which is what is useful to most projects.

Most of the people maintaining Gump are Ant developers? Why? Because it is an excellent regression test for Ant.

But I think it would be fairly easy. The bootstrap process in Maven uses
a simple SAXHandler and picks things out of the POM for bootstrapping. I
could probably write a little utility in 10 minutes that could take a
POM and extract the elements required to compile the project sources.
The tool only requiring the JDK. So if that would that satisfied your
requirements for what you desire I would make that in order to replace
Gump.

If it can bootstrap and build all the projects that Gump can now, I'll do my part, both in coding and migration of project descriptors. I'll let you know up front that I am sceptical (example: Axis is a bear to build), but I will promise to be open minded.

- Sam Ruby



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