Jason van Zyl wrote: > Gump _never_ used an object model, never. Gump was targeted at overall > control by a small set of people (and it's still that way, no one > outside of Jakarta/XML barely knows what it is) to build sources against > CVS. That's not what Maven was ever targeted at, ever. Maven uses Ant > but Ant has no concept of an object model either. I definitely admit to > not wanting to use the Gump descriptor and that's proven to be a good > thing. If you call Maven a duplicate of a tool that generates 30k line > shell scripts then do as you please.
So what ? The point is that setting a standard for the repository and descriptor should be apache wide. What is used to implement it is completely irrelevant. The descriptor and repositories consist of files and protocols - that can be implemented in gump, ant or plain java. > _before I ever knew of Maven_ That's fine. Don't presume to know how > long I've been thinking of Maven before the first line of code landed > anywhere. This is not a contest of who tought first - you're not getting a pattent. People have been thinking about CPAN/CJAN and build tools for a long time, and what matters is finding a common solution that is independent of a particular build tool. > Give me a break. Again like a pluggable functionality is a radical new > idea. Your plugins are ant build files. So you came out first with a way Like a CPAN repository or dependency tracking is a radical new idea... > I don't care what you do or do not do. I didn't want any part of Gump > code, 30k lines shells scripts, a DOM model or a big heap of ant build > files. So yes, I am the one who advocated not working together but I > certainly wasn't the only one who felt like that. There are people who don't care of Maven code too - I use Ant and I'm happy with it. I care about a standard descriptor, layout and repository - and that standard can only happen if it is accepted by all tools and projects. Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
