+1 Zeroturnaround released an interesting report on the state of developer productivity, that showed maven as significantly more popular than ant, but personally ant seems a better soln to me.
Plus - it's already in place. :) John On Jun 19, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > Actually I think I answered my own question. Let's not wait for the build > question. Build.xml is not that hard to write and not very wasteful to throw > away if we decide on a different build system. > > --Alex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:53 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: FW: [PROPOSAL] Further refinement of CloudStack modules... >> >> I've been investigating the breaking out of CloudStack modules and of course >> it ties in closely with the build system. I like to get some thoughts >> gathered >> on the approaches. >> >> 1. Move to a build system such as maven now and then use the tools to do >> the breakout. >> 2. Break out now and write build.xml files for each project and then leave >> moving to a different build system to someone else. >> >> Is there a preference? If 1, is maven the right one to use? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Alex Stratosec - Secure Infrastructure as a Service o: 415.315.9385 @johnlkinsella
