Should have given you the link for moving to Gradle... http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5616
That one in particular has been discussed both here as well as IRC for close to 6 months. In retrospect I guess the move to Git might have been a surprise outside of the IRC crowd and for that I apologize. On the other hand the dev IRC channel is open... :) On Sunday, October 10, 2010 01:38:37 pm Steve Ebersole wrote: > On Sunday, October 10, 2010 01:25:38 pm Paul Benedict wrote: > > I think uber jars are never a good idea. You get everything and > > developers don't care to find out what features they want or don't > > want. > > Personally I agree 100% there. Maybe even 10000000000% ;) > > > As for Maven, have you considered profiles? If developers could > > activate them, there would be pre-built dependencies (like for c3p0). > > I find this better than Ivy. > > Well couple of things there. First, these would need to be profiles in > their poms. AFAIK you cannot "invoke" profiles in poms of dependencies. > This however is completely possible in Ivy, which is why I stated I > thought it would be the more flexible way to go. > > Also, Hibernate 4 will not be built with Maven. I am taking the > opportunity to also move to Gradle which I have wanted to do for quite > some time. Of course if you say there is a way to do what I said above I > thought was not possible with Maven and "show me the light" we could make > the generated poms reflect these profiles. > > As far as I know, the only way to do what you suggest with Maven would be > for us to develop an archetype. The problem with these imho is that you > rarely are developing a "hibernate application"; more usually you are > developing a "web application", within which you are using hibernate. So > you need to decide up front which archetype you want to use. Its just > very inflexible. -- Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> http://hibernate.org _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
