Gary Gregory wrote at Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009 10:39: >> -----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?)
Is it better to provide a build.xml that is only maintained half-hearted - if at all? Are we sure that at least one of us tried the Ant build for a release candidate? You know, what I mean ... - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
