Hi list, I know the query that follows isn't a core question about geotools but since it it about building gt and gt projects I hope it's ok to post it here...
Is it just me or do others find maven tiresome sometimes ? I've spent a while trying to work out how to reduce the volume of downloads when I'm just building something that I've made some trivial changes to. But as far as I can work out, the only easy options seem to be all or nothing (-o for offline mode). Is that right ? Tips on cheat sheets / examples etc. for using maven more economically would be most welcome... Don't get me wrong - I can see that the maven concept is very clever - but when I'm sitting here watching it spend ages checking itself, downloading the plexus stuff *yet again*, then going through the endless pom->pom->pom transitive trail before *finally* getting to my code, I feel sorely tempted to go back to old-school methods. <cathartic rant> I wasted a couple of hours yesterday trying to work out why adding log4j to my very very basic geotools / swing app was generating so much pain. I finally worked out it was because the all-or-nothing maven process wanted java messaging suite on my system but couldn't get it because it's a sun jar. It's also a JEE tool (my app is only SE), isn't available for Mac (my development platform) and isn't required for anything I need to do with log4j... In the end I learned how to exclude dependencies in the pom, so that was something I suppose, but it left me wondering if I wouldn't have been better off just building log4j myself and bunging the jar into my project. </cathartic rant> Sorry for the word length... I feel better now :) Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
