Ant as Build Tool? #6399
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Hello, I am completely new to mirth. I was wondering why Ant is still used as a build tool. Are there any compelling reasons for this? Are there any plans to change this? Maybe with the expected update to Java17 ? |
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Search the GitHub project and https://forums.mirthproject.io/ for "ant maven" and you should find the historical context. Ant is currently used because the project sponsor used Ant when the project started and it works well enough. There have been some community efforts to convert to Maven or Gradle but those efforts were just experiements and never completed. The change to the project layout (I think that was for 4.5.0) should make Mavenization of individual modules easier. https://github.com/kpalang has done some great work to make Mirth artifacts available for Mirth plugin development using Maven. |
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Search the GitHub project and https://forums.mirthproject.io/ for "ant maven" and you should find the historical context.
Ant is currently used because the project sponsor used Ant when the project started and it works well enough. There have been some community efforts to convert to Maven or Gradle but those efforts were just experiements and never completed. The change to the project layout (I think that was for 4.5.0) should make Mavenization of individual modules easier.
https://github.com/kpalang has done some great work to make Mirth artifacts available for Mirth plugin development using Maven.