[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Switch to using Maven2

[Catalin Hritcu]

Hi Vincent,

I'm all for using Maven for new releases. If we drop ant could we also
remove all IDE-specific project files from the source repository ?
Maven can generate these files.

Regards,
Catalin

On 6/20/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose 2 things:
>
> 1) Use Maven2 to perform the 1.1M3 release
> 2) Remove the Ant build in 1.1M4
>
> Rationale:
> * It's a real pain to maintain 2 builds
> * The m2 build is already doing more than the Ant build
>
> Things left to do on the m2 build:
> * Finish setting up TeamCity (I need Raffaello's help as ObjectWeb's
> SVN is bad and we need to set up a SVN ready only replicate on which
> we could plug TC)
> * Fix an issue with the database importer (XWIKI-1104)
> * Review the versions of the dependencies
>
> What this means is that you should try using Maven 2 yourself from
> today onward and see if can make it work. If not, ask questions here
> on the list and I'll help and I'll tune the build accordingly.
>
> There's already some doc on:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/
> Building#HBuildingwithMaven2
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
>
>
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