Jeppe, So long as you have built with maven once whilst you are connected, you can always later build using the -o option for an offline build, especially in reference to the examples it is useful (and speeds up the build considerably :)
Grant M. On 8/25/06, Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems to me that Maven is not all glory, though it has some nice features, I'm sure. However it seems to make for more brittle builds since the builds are depending on external resources being available and downlaoded. Besides the fact that you might not always be connected. There might be ways around this I guess, to "disconnect" maven from attempting to download new jars. Anyways I think it would be a very good thing if the release is not dependent on maven for building the examples. It would probably be best if they were included pre-built. Terry Cox wrote: > > Encouraging new developers to work within maven is probably a good thing > as dependency management is a big part of the JBI world. Maven enforces > good practices with respect to that and hopefully the examples will > provide a cleaner path into a workable build environment. > > We initially experienced a steep learning curve in trying to get beyond > the simple Ant-based examples to a build environment capable of dealing > with many ServiceMix components. > > Terry > >> It seems a bit contrived to have to use maven to build the examples. >> Maven >> might be used to build the release, but it seems strange that the >> distribution should be dependent on Maven. With Maven there is alot of >> "magic" going on in the background which doesn't add to the clarity >> of the >> examples and facilitates a low threashold of entry into servicemix. >> >> This was not the case in M2, but has changed sometimes after. Or >> maybe it's >> just this way when building the SNAPSHOT package? >> >> I believe that the examples are usually the entry point for beginner >> (like >> mysellf) in getting to grips with a new platform. >> >> What is the reason for this? Any possibilities to revert this course? > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-do-examples-need-maven-to-run-tf2157824.html#a5972297 Sent from the ServiceMix - Dev forum at Nabble.com.
