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

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