Paul, I really am not trying to sell anything. I'm trying to help your community. You will get no *arguments* in favour or against from me.
My users keep asking for Maven on SDKMAN, and I sincerely wish to give them what they ask for. Whether the community is willing to lend a hand is entirely up to the *committers* of this project. On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 at 00:12 Paul Hammant <p...@hammant.org> wrote: > Marco, > > You could sell your idea better, I think. You have "Most of the big > projects want to do this" as one of the stronger arguments in favor, which > isn't enough. For 20 years, Lean/Agilistas have focussed on "what is the > problem you're trying to solve?". And that is the question, I personally* > would want to make to you. > > * I'm an interloper to this list, not a committer. > > Maven experts really do one setup thing: "brew install maven" (or equiv). > > Then they clone repos that purport to be example applications for the think > they want (SpringBoot, Grails). Then they mvn install that and the bits of > the SDK they need come down to their local cache. It has been four years > since I last acquired a new JVM technology any other way. > > - Paul >
