+1 - Romain
2011/12/20 David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com> > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 1:06 PM, jean-frederic clere wrote: > > > On 12/19/2011 07:47 PM, David Jencks wrote: > >> Are you reading the thread? I mentioned dec 17 that geronimo has > >> been maintaining a script for 2+ years that pulls tomcat source out > >> of tomcat svn and puts it in an appropriately structured maven > >> mutli-project build and we've been re-releasing quite a few tomcat > >> versions using this technique. Not sure how this is "talk". I've > >> experienced enough hostility over the years from the tomcat community > >> (not necessarily any currently active members) that I'm reluctant to > >> spend more time on this. > > > > So starting with what is in the geronimo repo, how much work would it to > have a "mavenized" Tomcat? > > I did this work and suggested tomcat look at it several years ago, and > don't remember all the details, some other people have been maintaining it > recently. IIRC the maven projects generate pretty much the same jars as > the ant build, possibly plus one more to get around the circular > dependencies among the jars. So to generate a maven multimodule project to > build the jars, 20 min to configure the script that builds the project, > then you have a mavenized tomcat project checked in that builds pretty much > the same jars as the ant build. I don't really know what else the ant > build generates. > > > > >> > >> As I have said before in previous iterations of this topic, IMO many > >> of the advantages of maven are not for direct development of the > >> project itself (although they certainly exist) but in encouraging > >> interactions with other projects and communities. You won't be able > >> to detect these without actually using maven. > > > > We already publish artifacs, do you need more of them? > > I think the benefit might be more on the order of encouraging people who > ask "where did this jar come from-- I wanna fix something". For people > familiar with maven, there is IMO a much higher barrier to contributing to > tomcat than a well-structured maven project. (BTW I must add that I'm > delighted that the tomcat community seems much more receptive to outside > input than it did several years ago -- community unfriendliness seems to be > totally missing now :-) ). > > thanks > david jencks > > > > > Cheers > > > > Jean-Frederic > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
