On Jan 13, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Personally, I always find maven itself to be such a barrier. I'm willing to
>> take it as a given, though, given its widespread adoption and use with
>> Hadoop. I presume this also helps with integration with the Apache build
>> and distribution environment?
> 
> I would really, really highly recommend sticking with Maven. There's a bit
> of an upfront setup (which I can totally help with) but the benefits are vast
> when it comes to publishing artifacts/interacting with other repos.

+ 1. The initial overhead of setting up maven is high, but it has good payoff, 
especially dealing with legal requirements for dependencies and release 
process. I can also help out as needed. Here is an example release process 
based on maven [1].

Cheers,
Suresh

[1] - http://airavata.apache.org/development/release-management.html

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