For me, the strongest arguments in favor of adopting a modern build tool like
Maven or Gradle are their ecosystems - both explicit (in terms of plugins), and
implicit (in terms of nearly all build tooling supporting both of them, but not
ant).
Investment in Ant - and in tooling that integrates
I think modules are already fairly well supported - we in effect already have
several? FQL, Simulator and others I think.
I can anyway say with absolute certainty that the main impediment to
modularising is not build tooling, it’s the difficulty of the task, the cost to
the project of undertaki
I agree with what you wrote. How I understand it is that migrating to
Maven/Gradle makes the project more "attractive" for newcomers. If a project is
built on "that old un-cool Ant", it might be a little bit off-putting and
questionable if we are "stuck in the past on build systems and not progr
I should say, if a majority of the core developers are secretly really keen to
see one of the other build systems takeover, I won’t stand in the way. But my
preference is not to take the productivity hit, and I know many of the core
developers prefer to avoid active involvement on list, and I su
There’s always a handful of people asking for it, but notably few if any of the
full time contributors doing the majority of the core development of Cassandra.
It strikes me as something very appealing to others, but less so to those
wanting to get on with development.
I never really see a good
Interesting take on Ant / no-Ant, Benedict. I am very curious how this unfolds.
My long-term perception is that changing it to something else is more or less
inevitable but if there is a broader consensus to not do that well.
From: Benedict
Sent: Fr
I was in a bit of a rush last night. I should say that I’m of course +1 a
general endeavour to clean this up, and to expand our use of linters, and I
appreciate your volunteering to help out in this way Maxim.
However, responding to Stefan, I’m pretty -1 migrating from ant to another
build sys
For the record, I was testing that same combo Claude mentioned and it did not
work out of the box but it is definitely possible to set up successfully. I do
not remember the details.
To replay to Maxim, it all seems good to me, roughly, but I humbly think it all
boils down to Maven/Gradle refac
+1 for the concept as a whole. I am certain I could find nits to pick if I
looked deeply.
@mck -- I did have a problem with Cassandra + Eclipse + Java11
(Classpath). I gave up and am spending time trying to learn IntelliJ. I
also mentioned it in one of the discussion areas.
Claude
On Thu, Nov
