On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 14:58 +0100, deadalnix wrote: […] > Comparing ant and maven is not appropriate here as maven is a > build system + a package manager when ant only builds.
Comparing Ant and Maven is perfectly valid since the goal of both is to build software from source. > The plugin system of maven is notoriously hellish. This shows 2 > things : > 1/ That extending the build system is really required, and if not > permitted from the build file themselves, by plugins to extends > the descriptive capabilities of the descriptive language. > 3/ That the benefice of having the build tool and the package > manager working together is big as people plebiscite it even when > the system is way worse on many other aspects. Thank goodness Gradle is available and showing that whilst Maven Central is a wonderful resource, Maven itself is second rate. Ant is fourth rate. We should note that Gradle and Maven have dependency management including of artefacts. In the Java-verse an artefact may contain many packages. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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