If somebody reorders the directory structure, I will shout “revert revert revert” J
We can only “fully” support maven by switching to maven, but most of the core committers don’t want this (including me). In my opinion, the approach we had was fine, to simply create the jar files as we do for the binary release, but add some (hopefully) automatically generated pom files to it. One thing I don’t like in this release process (as it currently works) is non-repeatable maven artifact generation. With maven, it’s impossible to regenerate the JAR files with the *same* MD5, even the MD5’s of the jar files in the binary release zip are different than the maven ones. If repeatability is not possible, at least the JAR files in the –bin.zip should be identical to the maven released ones! Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen <http://www.thetaphi.de/> http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] From: Robert Muir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: discussion about release frequency. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ryan McKinley <[email protected]> wrote: I'm not sure it would be useful yet. There is consensus that the process needs to improve. The only concrete 'vote' i could imagine now is to drop maven. I completely agree the process needs to improve, but at the end of the day, if we are planning to support maven officially in releases, i think we should vote on it becoming part of the actual release process. So maybe its premature to vote on this part, but at the same time, I have concerns about what it would take to 'fully support' maven. For example, if we have to reorganize our source tree to what it wants (src/main/java, src/main/test), and rename our artifacts to what it wants (-SNAPSHOT, etc), this is pretty important. what else might maven 'require'. its also my understanding that in the past, when maven is upgraded (e.g. Maven 2), it might require you to modify your project in ways such as this to fit its new "needs". >From what I know of maven, its quite inflexible about such things, and I want >to know what i'm getting into before we claim to 'make maven first class >citizen'. -- Robert Muir [email protected]
