[rules-dev] Maven profiles (making maven faster and build more): change propositions

Ming Fang mingfang at mac.com
Wed Oct 27 09:05:16 EDT 2010


+1
This will be great.

On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Geoffrey De Smet wrote:

> I 'd like to refactor the maven build to use exactly 3 profiles and remove all other profiles:
> default
> Fast, for during development
> full
> Slow, but builds everything. Used by hudson, releases and before you go to sleep
> soa
> Prunes the non-soa stuff away
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Long explanation:
> The maven build is too slow atm:
> GWT compilation of all permutations (during development 1 permutation is enough)
> yet some parts of the code don't build with maven
> such as
> in the past GWT compilation
> antlr generation
> eclipse plugin
> examples 
> problems with this approach
> they use unmanaged dependency versions (antlr generation might use a different version than antlr dependency in pom)
> require tool installations (gwt dev kit under /home/Rikkola/gwt :)
> commit generated files to svn
> adding them to maven will make the maven build even slower... unless...
> The profiles are too complicated, currently we have these profiles:
> default (the one you run with "mvn clean install")
> Build these too
> drools-clips
> drools-planner
> drools-pipeline
> drools-simulator
> osgi-bundles
> Proposition: don't build those in soa
> documentation
> Build drools-docs too
> Proposition: merge into profile full
> build-eclipse
> Build drools-eclipse too
> Proposition: merge into profile full
> cibuild (hudson)
> Build these too:
> drools-docs
> drools-eclipse
> drools-examples too
> In drools-process, build these too:
> drools-bpel
> drools-jpdl
> Proposition: merge into profile full
> soa
> in drools (parent)
> assembly: use soa assembly description alternatives
> in drools-guvnor
> change some tokens in some files (ant based, not maven filtering yet)
> run pre-integration-test
> in drools-eclipse
> Don't build org.drools.eclipse.task
> in drools-docs
> Don't build drools-docs-planner and drools-docs-integration
> grammars
> in drools-core and drools-compiler
> runs the antlr file generation
> Proposition: replace with maven antlr plugin
> if fast, do part of the default profile and output to target dir
> if slow, do part of the full profile and output to src dir (just as it is now)
> gen-brms-import (not part of any top-level build)
> Proposition: Leave it alone until we deal with that commented out module bulk-importer-util
> ydoc-doclet (commented out on drools parent pom)
> Proposition: remove it
> -- 
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Smet
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