I have been in the guts of build.xml probably a lot more than you realise. It pretends to be Maven for dependency management, but this is a small part of the job of a build file.
From: Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 3 February 2022 at 13:07 To: dev <dev@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Re: Build tool On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 3:23 AM bened...@apache.org <bened...@apache.org> wrote: > If we’re struggling to actually use ant how we want that’s another matter, > but it’s easy to forget how much just works for us with ant If you don't regularly work on the build system, it may be easy to forget that ant works by actually trying to be maven. First we had maven-ant-tasks, and then when that was deprecated we had to switch to resolver-ant-tasks (in quite a rush at the time) so that we could do needed releases. For the fact that our ant is a poor maven implementation, I am +1 on maven.
