I think the primary reason to change the SVN layout to more easily support Maven is for easier integration with the open-source community that uses Maven. We can stick to our guns and not do it, but it's really a trivial change, and it makes people's lives easier. sam
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Brian Pontarelli <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Andrei Pozolotin wrote: > > > Alen, hello: > > > > On Oct 15, 3:50 am, Alen Vrečko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't get it. Why spend all this effort in being able to build with > >> Maven? Surely not because every 2 or so years a couple of jars need to > > > > maven helps to have all guice jars with all extensions and all latest > > fixes > > availaby weekly, instead of every 2 years, > > > > maven also helps with not having to mess with your own jars > > which are not shared and which nobody can relate to; > > > > maven helps you to ask a question: "such and such is not working in > > guice-3.0.1-SNAPSHOT" and receive an answer "I had the same; now it > > works for me in guice-3.0.3-SNAPSHOT", then make 1 line change in your > > pom and you up and running; > > It's pretty simple to add an Ant target that will produce the POM, JARs and > source JARs and put them into your local Maven2 cache. That would fix this > issue as well. Again, no reason to switch Guice to Maven really. All the > Maven stuff is merely metadata about the project that can be generated by > anything since it is just XML. Similarly, the Ant target could produce Ivy > and Savant metadata and publish that information to those local caches as > well. Why not cover all the dependency management tools at once? > > -bp > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-guice" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-guice%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-guice" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice?hl=en.
