On 4/10/11 11:44 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Hen, > > Henri Yandell wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> > [snip] > >>> * One last nit - why did we decide to dump the Ant build. Version >>> 2.6 seems to have a working Ant build. Why wouldn't the same build >>> work for 3.0. If you are OK with this, I will try to get the Ant >>> build restored. >> IIRC, because no one was maintaining it. I've dumped other Ant builds >> in other components too over the last 4 years (along with maven1 >> builds). I'm generally -1 to the "there are many ways to build it" >> approach. It takes the pain of dealing with one build system and >> increases it to 3x the pain. [manage build1, manage build2 and then >> ensure build1 and build2 stay in sync]. > Same here. Why deliver two build scripts .. is anybody actually keen on > ensuring that both builds generate the same stuff? What do we vote on then? > We vote on what goes to dist/
The point of keeping a working Ant build is for users who want to build from source and are not Maven users (many, many users in the real world). Phil > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
