James M Snell wrote:
... must ... resist ... maven ... bashing ... must ... not ... give in
... to ... natural ... impulse ...
Haha, I do understand, really I do.
<philosphizing>The larger picture though is that I work on a dozen or so
open source projects and I find it insanely difficult to learn new
builds every time. Maven standardizes all that. So if a project is
configured correctly I can get it going within a minute. I can do
releases with just a few commands I already know. As can other people. I
don't dispute that Ant has its advantages. Its just that on average, it
doesn't pay for me to use Ant :-)</philosophizing>
... then again, I'm also not going to have the time to keep serving as
the release manager and, like Garrett, I don't have the time to change
the build process. If someone is willing to do the work and provide
non-mavenites like myself with proper step-by-step build instructions,
go for it.
Well how about I whip something up for 0.4 and we can evaluate things
from there? You never know, you might like it ;-)
- Dan
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Dan Diephouse
MuleSource
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