On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Steve <stephen.a.lind...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 4, 9:08 pm, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's actually a bit worrying. I'm not sure I want a potential >> security hole into my computer, such as a repository, being "handled >> for me" without having *some* input into the matter. For example if I >> intend to use it purely locally I'd want to firewall the port it's >> using to make sure it's unreachable from any address other than >> 127.0.0.1. >> > > No, there's no server, no port, nothing to firewall. It's just a > directory (~/.m2/repository).
So, not actually a repository, then. :) > Well exactly - by using an independent build tool you decrease the > likelihood of your build being tied to a particular IDE. If I'm using > Netbeans on linux, and you're using Eclipse on windows I'd be more > confident of being able to build your project if you're using maven/ > lein/cake/etc. than if you're using the IDEs built in project > management facilities or a bunch of shell scripts (or ant for that > matter). One problem with that is that you generally can't *not* use your IDE's built in project management unless you don't use an IDE at all (vi, emacs, Notepad, whatever rather than Eclipse, IDEA, Netbeans, whatever). > I think that Greenspun's tenth rule has an analogue in hand rolled > build systems - most of them end up being a crappy implementation of > 10% of maven's functionality (and maven is not that nice to begin > with :) That's not *too* bad, compared to Greenspun's 50%. On the other hand I'd think the more natural comparison would be to make, which after all long predates maven and may even be half as old as Common Lisp. :) -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
