> -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuel Bourg [mailto:ebo...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:29 AM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Codec 1.4 based on RC2 > > Jörg Schaible a écrit : > > > Maybe we should start asking the other way round: Why do *we* want to > > maintain an additional Ant build file? We build our artifacts with > Maven, > > vote on them and distribute exactly those in the end. I'd never expect > to > > get the exactly same jar using a different build system. If somebody > want > > an Ant build he can use the maven-ant-plugin > > (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/) to create the > > build.xml. > > Among the people using Ant to build our components there are the Linux > distros like Debian. I believe that building with Maven is more > complicated for them, but not impossible. We should probably encourage > them to convert all their builds to Maven.
Would we be doing these folks a great disservice by removing the man-made Ant build from the project (as opposed them using a Maven generated build.xml?) Gary > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
