On Apr 12, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm much more here. For example, I might have 250,000 words of text > annotated for training a statistical model. I have a maven build that > needs to grab unpack that pile into some location, run a plugin that > performs some data normalization, and then feed the location into a > maven plugin of mine that trains the model. This definitively seems like the wrong place to do this, in the build system. This is not a build time activity, it seems like part of an ETL flow of a data acquisition application. > I guess I could model this > as dependencies, if the scope system allowed me to manage all of this > at a safe distance from the classpath, but as it is it works fine as > 'putting together a bunch of files.' The question is why would you model something like this at all in Maven. Just because you might be able to doesn't mean you should. You can, but your specific use case doesn't seem appropriate for a build system. > >> >> >>> I think that Hervé is trying to help me by suggesting that I shouldn't >>> need the dependency: that just calling out the coordinates to >>> something like :unpack should result in resolution via injection. >>> >>> Then what changes? >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> http://twitter.com/takari_io >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to >> act in accordance with your thinking. >> >> -- Johann von Goethe >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
