Re: [Zookeeper-user] Moving to maven

[Andrew K. <ak...@ya...>]

Hello,

Alan! Thanks for the Maven books links!

Maven does have a number of advantages over Ant (and for people like us who
enjoy life long learning the indisputable advantage of Maven is of course
the time it's going to take to actually learn it :-)

However, for a simple project like zookeeper with no external dependencies
save for the ubiquitous junit, I wonder if switching to Maven would add any
value other than having the project "mavenized"? 

Please don't get me wrong: I'm not arguing that Ant is better than Maven,
nor do I have any specific objections to moving to Maven. I'm trying to get
a better idea how much a happier man I will be with Maven than I currently
am with Ant :-)

Regards,
Andrew


> -----Original Message-----
> From: zoo...@li... [mailto:zookeeper-user-
> bo...@li...] On Behalf Of Alan D. Cabrera
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:45 AM
> To: zoo...@li...
> Subject: [Zookeeper-user] Moving to maven
> 
> I'd like to suggest moving to Maven.  It has a number of advantages
> over Ant.  Some of my favorites:
> 
> - easier for external projects to use ZooKeeper (via maven repositories)
> - no need to checkin jars into the SVN repository
> - easy plugins to build IntelliJ and Eclipse projects
> - easy plugins to build OSGi bundles
> - future plugins to deploy OSGi bundles to OBRs
> 
> Maven relies on "convention over configuration".  This means  that
> ZooKeeper will be organized along the same lines as most other Open
> Source projects.  This makes it easier for other communities to
> understand how the ZooKeeper project is constructed.  To be sure Ant
> has wide appeal but I have to say, from my experience with Geronimo,
> that you would be surprised at all the different ways Ant build
> projects can be built.
> 
> I am happy to convert this project to use Maven.  It will require
> some significant restructuring.  I recommend that I do the work in a
> sandbox for the team to review.  Using patches might prove to be
> error prone in this particular case.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alan
> 
> 
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