David E Jones wrote: > Thanks for this Adam. These are great points maven versus ant.
It may be possible to do what I want with maven. But the fact that in *all* cases where I have had the horror of seeing maven used by a project, they have *all* been network based, required maven installed in the system, and then installed their built files into $HOME somewhere, tells me that it's not possible. And/or no one really understands how to *use* maven, and they just copy things from a select few who exist on high, that actually do. This is not a tool I wish to use. It tells me it is too hard to actually understand and extend. The best tools are those that get used for something the original authors never intended.
