Congratulations to the Apache Maven team - this is a great milestone! Kind Regards, John Fallows.
On 9/16/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Apache Maven team are proud to announce the beta release of Maven 2.0. > > Download it from http://maven.apache.org/maven2/download.html > > Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on > the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a > project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of > information. > > This release includes 206 bug fixes and enhancements [1] since the > previous release on 26 June. > > Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application to achieve a > number of goals, and to provide a stable basis to take it into the > future. This release also includes the dependency management Ant tasks, > that bring all of Maven's dependency management features to Ant. > > The main new features in this release are: > > * Further improved dependency management: full support for dependency ranges > * Reactor project aggregation support and summary > * File system discovery of POMs and artifacts to reduce build time and > use of local and remote repositories > * Repository metadata support > * System scope dependency support > * Eclipse compiler support, ability to fork compiler > * Ability to automatically bundle sources and javadoc with deployments > * Maven 1.x repository support > * Allow use of setters in mojos for field population > * Ability to separate snapshot repository > * Ability to set minimum Maven version requirement for projects and plugins > * Build extension support > * Bugfixes and enhancements > > This release is considered stable with a feature set comparable to Maven > 1.0. Further betas and the final are expected to be backwards > compatible, with a primary goal of bugfixes, usability improvements, and > documentation. > > A large number of plugins will be released in the coming week to match > the primary Maven 1.0 plugin set. > See the Maven Plugin Matrix [2] for more information. > > We hope you enjoy using Maven! If you have any questions, please consult: > > * the web site: http://maven.apache.org/maven2/ > * the maven-user mailing list: http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html > > For news and information, see: > > * Maven Blogs: http://www.mavenblogs.com/ > > [1] > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=11040 > [2] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+Plugin+Matrix > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
