On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > look, what you are trying to do is move an object of infinite mass, keeping > the lever length and force applied finite. good luck, it will be fun for us > watching from the sidelines... fundamentally maven is about downloading > dependencies on demand from the network rather than building from source... > gentoo is about building from source rather than downloading binaries from > the network...
(as a gentoo user myself...) The bytecode languages don't fit well into the Gentoo model. Even though bytecode is an intermediary source form compiled from source, Gentoo tries to treat it as a platform dependent binary. The Java team then fights a losing battle to cobble together enough accurate builds for the library chain to get anything useful to work. Even then, because the source bytecode doesn't necessarily match the official release, strange issue keep cropping up. After many problems, I've now opted to uninstall the official Maven and Ant packages (and Eclipse...), and use instead a set of scripts which accurately and flexibly allow me to configure exactly the official bytecode I want to use (a little bit like a better eselect). It has always struck me as somewhat ironic that if the Gentoo team donned their clue-hats and treated bytecode as the source form then they might quickly have one of the best development environments for the bytecode languages... Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
