[jira] [Assigned] (HIVE-2229) Potentially Switch Build to Maven

["David Phillips (Assigned) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Phillips reassigned HIVE-2229:
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    Assignee: David Phillips
    
> Potentially Switch Build to Maven
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>                 Key: HIVE-2229
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2229
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ed Kohlwey
>            Assignee: David Phillips
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I want to propose this idea as gently as possible, because I know there's a lot of passion around build tools these days.
> There should at least be some discussion around the merits of Maven vs. Ant/IVY.
> If there's a lot of interest in switching Hive to Maven, I would be willing to volunteer some time to put together a patch.
> The reasons to potentially look at Maven for the build system include:
> - Simplified build scripts/definitions
> - Getting features like publishing test artifacts "automagically"
> - Very good IDE integration using M2 eclipse
>   - IDE integration also supports working on multiple projects at the same time which may have dependencies on eachother.
> - If you absolutely must you can use the maven-antrun-plugin
> - Despite the fact that people have trouble thinking in maven at first, it becomes easy to work with once you know it
>  - This supports knowledge reuse
> Reasons for Ant/Ivy
> - There's more flexibility
> - The system's imperative style is familiar to all programmers, regardless of their background in the tool
> Reasons not to go Maven
> - The build system is hard to learn for those not familiar with Maven due to its unusual perspective on projects as objects
> - There's less flexibility
> - If you wind up dropping down to the maven ant plugin a lot everything will be a big mess
> Reasons not to continue Ant/Ivy
> - Despite the fact that the programming paradigm is familiar, the structure of Ant scripts is not very standardized and must be re-learned on pretty much every project
> - Ant/Ivy doesn't emphasize reuse very well
>  - There's a constant need to continue long-running development cycles to add desirable features to build scripts which would be simple using other build systems

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