Re: Please consider using Maven

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 01:11 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> I would have no problem publishing to maven if someone wants to do the
>> work to make it happen.
>
>
> I work with Maven a lot and like it. Mostly. I thought about trying to
> Mavenize the JDBC driver a while ago but before I proposed it here I took at
> look at the build.xml and decided it wasn't so important after all ;-)
>
> PgJDBC has all that that funky business for handling different JDBC levels
> and compilation with different JDKs. It's not especially challenging to do
> with Maven, but it complicates things a bit. When I last looked I didn't
> know enough about Maven to be able to tackle it.
>
> Knowing that you're OK with moving it over to Maven is interesting. If I'm
> ever feeling the lack of pain and suffering in my day to day development I
> might give the conversion a go ;-)
>
> --
> Craig Ringer

Craig,

What I said was I would be OK with publishing to maven, not using
Maven for building it. I don't see any upside for the amount of work
involved. As you say the build is complicated and works well with Ant.

Dave