Re: Maven port to current version 3

Who has decided that ant is no longer supported to build Scarab ?

regards,
Hussayn

Am 26.04.2012 11:34, schrieb Johannes H=C3=B6chst=C3=A4dter:
> Hi all,
>
> SCB3096: Today I merged our current branch for Maven 3 port back to trunk=
.
>
> You now will need:
> * scarab-maven-plugin installed (extensions directory)
> * all patched and licensed libraries installed in your local repo, see=20
> www/repository/README.txt
> * Maven 3
>
> Ant is not longer supported for building Scarab.
>
> cheers,
> Johannes
>
> Am 17.04.2012 16:49, schrieb Johannes H=C3=B6chst=C3=A4dter:
>> Am 17.04.2012 16:17, schrieb Hussayn Dabbous:
>>> Hi, Johannes;
>>>
>>> Are you going to completely remove the ant build ?
>>> I remember a discussion about kicking ant in favor
>>> of maven-2 some time ago. At that time there was
>>> strong evidence to keep ant although i do not rember
>>> the exact reasoning.
>> Yes, removing Ant is the plan for Scarab's build. We want to migrate the
>> whole build to Maven 3, to avoid a two-tier build system. Keeping Ant
>> for this has no reason for us.
>>
>>> Are you aware of the fact that ant is also used during
>>> runtime
>> Can you please point out where Ant is used exactly during runtime, and
>> how this is related to the build? Are you sure that this is still in
>> use? For webinstall we have this standalone webapp as alternative as you
>> can see here: http://itlabs.memocomp.de/ScarabWebBuilder.
>>> and the ant jars are also deployed to WEB-INF/lib ?
>> The default war build, by "package", from Maven is taken, which deploys
>> all jars correctly.
>>> Are you going to remove this dependency also ?
>>> And how would the normal build change with Maven-3 ?
>> As you might know, Maven and Ant behave nearly compatible, so no real
>> "change" is expected, e.g. for some special Ant tasks of Scarab we use
>> Mojos for Maven now, but there are some differences in our plan. The
>> major one might be:  All jars will be taken from official Maven
>> repositories during build, and no local repository is kept, as this is
>> not the way to go for Maven I think. You are free to set up a proxy for
>> this, Nexus or else, or use your own local repository, as this should be
>> more comfortable.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Johannes
>>
>>
>>    Am 17.04.2012 15:57, schrieb Johannes H=C3=B6chst=C3=A4dter:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the branch work for the announced maven port seems to be done. For thi=
s
>>>> reason we want to merge the resulting sources back to trunk at the end
>>>> of next week.
>>>>
>>>> We opened an issue for this: SCB3096.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Johannes
>>>>
>>>> Am 16.04.2012 15:22, schrieb Johannes H=C3=B6chst=C3=A4dter:
>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> back on trunk, we want to migrate Scarab's build to Maven, and to sta=
rt
>>>>> to get rid of the dependencies to the build tools Ant and Maven 1.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore we have the following suggestion:
>>>>>
>>>>> * There will be a new dependant project scarab-maven-plugin which
>>>>> contains a Maven plugin for some special Scarab build tasks e.g. the
>>>>> database. This subproject will reside in directory
>>>>> "Scarab/extensions/scarab-maven-plugin" for now.
>>>>>
>>>>> We will start the Maven port soon, on a newly created branch. For us,
>>>>> Maven 3 is a good choice and our currently working build environment =
for
>>>>> Scarab.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are looking forward to your replies if there are any suggestions..=
.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> Johannes
>>>>>


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Dr. Hussayn Dabbous
SAXESS Software Design GmbH
Neuenh=C3=B6fer Allee 125
D 50935 K=C3=B6ln
tel.: 0221 560 1111
http://www.saxess.de

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