On 12/5/05, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All I have to say: dependency management plus the reports are just > > enough for me to never want to switch back to ant again. Even from > > m1! Worst case I was always able to come up with some non-standard > > goals-magic to do what I wanted. > > Its clear that many here like maven enough to want to keep it. > Personally, it drives me up the wall. > > For example, ATM, I am trying to use clirr with maven. I've had it > working before, but now it deosn't. It tries to download the jar even > though its in the local repository, and thus fails. There is no rhyme > nor reason about why it fails now when I've had it work previously. I've > already wasted an hour on it, so now I shall just do what I always do - > run ant instead. > > At least there seems to be some discussion about trying to simplify life > here at commons.
Mhm, that makes me wonder whether Ant + Ivy (for dependencies) wouldn't be a better (simpler) choice, or perhaps Maven 2 (havn't used it yet). Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
