On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:19 +0100, C.Grobmeier wrote: > Hi, > > >Is IVY+ANT better than Maven? My desk research says yes, but I have > >never done anything in Maven, so I can't support this from experience. > >All I know is I am sticking with IVY+ANT in my own work because I'm > >happy with it.
Thanks Ross for sharing your research. > > i have expierences in maven and in ant. I more with ant then maven2. I worked as well a bit with maven1. > I didn't try ivy at the moment. me neither. > But i figured out, that it's hard to build with maven when i have special > requirements. One think I really hate on maven is the properties system. I love the local.build.properties override style in ant and with maven that means always headaches. I agree with you Chris. > It needs lots time to configure everything you want totally agreed. > and in my opinion maven has two benefits: dependency management,the > documentation stuff and the easy integration of metric reports. > > Dependency management can be done by ivy. It sounded like ivy is quite cool > and easy for this. I am really eager to see ivy in action. > me too. > Documentation in forrest will be done in forrest. I think there is no > discussion. eat your own dog food. > > Metric reports: it's possible to do this in ant too. Maybe it's more work > here, but i don't think it's too hard. yes > > Forrest is more complex to build than a standard day-life project. If i could > decide i would go the ant/ivy way too and maybe borrow some ideas of maven > where possible. I need to look into ivy, sounds it does one think and this very well. I like that. Maven is more the complete package that you hardly ever need together. > > Just my 2 pence :-) Thanks for the feedback. salu2 > cheers, > Chris > > -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
