On the onboarding new contributors I can definitely say that I agree with the earlier comment about 'getting surprised to see ant' (having worked on Maven and Gradle for the last 10+ years). Also, I would recount a specific challenge I had with making the 'examples' folder as a sub-module in IntelliJ. Not sure if it was Maven, it would simplify anything because I felt it was partly IntelliJ's caching that gave me a lot of trouble until I figured out how to make it work predictably for the sub-module. Without that setup I could not run unit tests from the examples/ssl-factory folder from the IntelliJ.
Agree that we should prepare pros/cons and have a choice vote. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 8:05 AM bened...@apache.org <bened...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 > > > > If we can get a pros/cons list we can have a ranked choice vote, move > forwards, and maybe agree not to revisit this for a few years at least? > > > > > > *From: *Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> > *Date: *Thursday, 3 February 2022 at 13:59 > *To: *dev <dev@cassandra.apache.org> > *Subject: *Re: Build tool > > Could someone take on clearly enumerating the pros and cons of ant vs. > maven? > > > > Without clarity this is going to keep stagnating as a war of > unsubstantiated opinions and fizzle out like it has so many times in the > past. > > > > I'd like to see it either change or the topic be put to rest. :) > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 8:38 AM Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 7:19 AM bened...@apache.org <bened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > It pretends to be Maven for dependency management, but this is a small > part of the job of a build file. > > It doesn't pretend, it actually uses part of the Maven project to > accomplish its goals. It's half the Maven it could be. > >
