Discussion: How should we support maven?

[Zeioth]

maven is the most extended building system for java projects, and many real world projects use it.

But the issue of implementing support for maven is that because it is SO flexible, it doesn't provide the standards we need to implement it.

Standards we need

• A standard way to build the project.
• A standard way to run the project.

Standards supported by maven

• Running mvn clean install will build the project

Standards unsupported by maven

• An standardized way to run the main program of the resulting project.

I'm not a professional java dev myself, so ideas from the community are welcome. If there is a clear path for implementing support for maven now, or in the future, we can add it.

[Zeioth]

The solution for maven is gonna be the same one as for CMake. Closing discussion.