Re: [weld-dev] Ant dist build
On 17 Mar 2010, at 02:08, Jay Balunas wrote:
Hi All,
So I'm starting to refactor the RichFaces 4.0 build and I am looking at what other
projects are doing. This includes weld and seam 3 builds ( especially because we have a
similar module concept ).
I'm looking for some lessons learned and what you would change if you could.
- Does the single parent pom work well when you have different modules with very
different dependencies?
It works well to a degree - aka the common superset of dependencies only (and plugin
control of course). In fact, we are now using composition rather than inheritance, as it a
lot more flexible.
We also use a "stack" POM with composition to specify a distribution.
- Do you guys have any scripts in your back pocket for making the svn co/update, and
build easier? We have a top level pom that does nothing but build all our modules from
their trunk. Might be worth checking in ( or I might of just missed it ).
- Dist building - I was thinking of modularizing our dist builds so CDK could be
responsible for building CDK dist, UI would do the same, while having a top level build
put these together into the primary dist. Was there thoughts of this for weld/seam 3? It
appears to me that there is really only a top level distribution build. I think both have
merits, just wondering what the thoughts were.
For Weld there is only a top level dist, as that is all we distribute. Each Seam module
may have a distro, not decided yet.
- I know you guys are using ant builds instead of mvn assembly plugin. Was this just
because the assembler sucks, or something else?
Because I couldn't work out how to use assembly plugin originally. Now I have, and new
builds use the assembly plugin (and we are converting others).
FYI - I think a lot of the build wiki pages are great, and has good details ( RF needs
the same for release process). I made a minor update to the
http://seamframework.org/Weld/WeldCoreReleases page, but agree with other posts that some
of the process is "learn as you go". It is still much better than many other
projects, and I'll help out if I get the time, but I can't promise anything right
now.
Yeah - also, as I wrote them, and wrote the build, I suspect I fell foul of making
assumptions ;-)
Pete