Le 28/04/2015 15:22, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
On 28/04/2015 3:31 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 27/04/2015 16:52, Adam Heath a écrit :
On 04/27/2015 09:40 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
You can already compile components separately by using the specific build files
Yeah, I know, and it's a pain in my side. I actually like being able to *compile* each component separately, by changing to that folder, and
running ant. I haven't yet been able to get maven to make that possible.
Yikes, that would be a Maven only solution (no Ant) blocker :/
Jacques
Why would Ant have trouble with a different project structure?
No I meant if ever we would head to Maven only (no Ant build in the project)
then it would be a blocker.
Ant is the ultimate in flexibility.
The change will affect the existing Ant processes but I find it hard to imagine
how it would prevent Ant from building OFBiz.
I would be tempted to look at providing alternative Ant builds.
I'm undecided on this, but it seems redundant to me and duplicate to maintain.
It might be nice to have a simple final assemble with Ant that pulls jar files
from Maven Central and uses these jars to build OFBiz
http://andreafrancia.it/2010/04/how-to-download-from-jars-from-mavencentral-with-ant-without-ivy.html
This is interesting, now I wonder if Jacopo still think the same than at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5464?focusedCommentId=13947664
Having Ant scripts that build individual components or groups of components
should be pretty simple.
That exists already
It is also possible to deploy artifacts built with Ant to Maven Central.
http://central.sonatype.org/pages/apache-ant.html
I don't see Ant support as a difficult part of a move to Maven but if there is a real demand to support the use of Ant for 100% of the development
tasks, it can be part of the move to Maven and any reorganization of the applications.
This will require a high level of cooperation between the experts in the Ant
build scripts and the experts promoting Maven.
I think, if ever we go the Maven way, we will still need Ant around and ready
Jacques
Ron
