On 8/8/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I mean is, your 100% right, it *is* very easy with Maven... I got > Struts to built pretty easily, my biggest problem as I recall was > needing to set the proxy settings to get to the repository to download > dependencies... But it's just as easy with Ant, so this scenario, > unless I'm missing something, isn't really in eithers' favor :)
The huge missing link that Maven provides is a standard way to define dependencies and a standard way to share those dependencies between projects, and keeps the dependencies updated, automatically. I lived through the bad old days of trying to keep the local Ant property files synched up with the latest changes *and* sniffing out which JARs to download. Unless your system exactly mirrored whoever setup the example file, or the JARs were checked into the repository, keeping a development system up to date is a nasty time sink. Especially, when you are involved with *multiple* open source projects, as many of us are. But, again, the priorities of an open source team with dozens of contributors that come and go, and dependencies on thirteen products from nine teams, will be different than a closed team with a stable staff and few dependencies. Maven is a nice fit with our priorities, but your priorities may differ. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
