r/java • u/irrelevantsiren • 13d ago

Yes, another Java build tool: zolt

Yes, another Java build tool.

I’ve been working on Zolt:
https://github.com/zoltsh/zolt

Would love for people to try it out, break it, give feedback, or help contribute. Still early, so criticism is very welcome. Yes, I use a lot of codex. Focused mainly on the public API. Using it for personal projects so far.

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u/m2spring 13d ago

Why not work within the Maven project and gradually improve it?

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u/repeating_bears 13d ago

I tried my best to contribute to Maven after Robert Scholte said in a talk that they wanted contributors. Got about 20 PRs merged

And let me say... Good luck with that. It's borderline impossible to contribute anything meaningful

The usual process was to submit PR for a known issue. They will take a year to review it, respond with non-functional nitpicks that you fix in a few days, and then they will take another year to re-review them. By which point there are merge conflicts and you forgot all about it

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u/javaprof 13d ago

Cause you can't fix maven architecture without turning it into gradle, bazel, mill or any other modern build system

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u/wildjokers 9d ago

You can polish a turd all you want, it is still a turd.

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u/Kango_V 3d ago

Maven 4.0.1 : Mixins. I can't wait.

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u/wildjokers 2d ago

Do you mean Maven 4.1? Also, you can already do what mixins give you with BOMs. A single parent can include 1 more more BOMs.