"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/02/02 12:08 AM
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Subject: Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Dude...you seriously need to get in line with GUMP. You want to make
> >>
> >I'm in line, I've had enough hassles with Gump over the last 3 weeks to
> >grow new grey hairs. But hey, someone breaks Xerces, and it's *my* job
to
> >fix it? Things are still a bit skewiff there.
> >
> But dude, thats good that it failed! Valuable information was provided
It'd be better if it didn't break, but then again, that's what it's early
detection is for. I'd much prefer to have not wasted my time having flame
wars with Nicola about how Latka's gump build has nothing to do with
Maven, and have Gump list my dependency as xml-xerces, when it's actually
using Xerces-J 2....
> through the failure. It may not be your job to fix Xerces, but next
> time it may be a dependency on Xerces that breaks (due to say a changed
> interface), in such case wouldn't you want to know so you could fix it
> before it hits you in the nose when everyone says "gee this project
> sucks it won't even work with the version of Xerces that ships with
> Tomcat 4.0.5" etc. You REALLY need to read the fowler article. Maybe
I don't know why you don't think I haven't read the fowler article. I've
used CruiseControl before, and understand where Gump is coming from. I'm
just not fond of the process of a project I depend on breaking their code
and I get to debug it....
> you should put some heat on the Xerces folks "hey you're breaking the
> build suckers" if it bothers you.
That's next, though.
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