I've "touched" Maven a couple of times (for other projects) since I "broke" with it ... and it hasn't improved. Maybe Maven2 will be indespensible, but Maven1 gets in the way.
On 5/9/05, Knut Wannheden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/8/05, Massimo Lusetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/8/05, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have some free cycles to look into using Ivy to handle > > > dependency download management? > > > > > > http://ivy.jayasoft.org/ > > > > > > It looks like a much better solution than the quicky Grabber Ant task, > > > even if it means having some kind of external files defining the > > > dependencies (not necessarily a bad thing, since a dependencies > > > report, ala Maven, could be generated). > > > > Didn't mean to provoke anyone or start a flame, but have you looked > > again at maven after your not so successfully previous experience. > > You can still use forrest to build the site/doc without to many problems > > Some years has passed by and maybe some things are changed ? > > > > I understand that changing a build system is a big changes in a > > project life, just wish to know what do you think about that... > > > > IMHO I'd rather see us staying with Ant due to the following reasons: > > - our current Ant build setup does all we need and does it very well > - many of us are already quite experienced Ant users and are probably > more intimidated by Maven > - we have some HiveMind specifics in our build process (e.g. > generating HiveDoc) which I don't know how much work it would be to > get working with Maven > - we develop HiveMind in Eclipse which is very well integrated with Ant > > I also think that incorporating Ivy into our build process would be a > much more natural fit. It would allow us to: > > - externalize the dependencies into separate files > - simplify our build process as it wouldn't have to start by building > and running our custom <grabber> task to retrieve dependencies from > Ibiblio > > Last I looked at Maven (it is quite a while ago...) I had a difficult > time getting it to work with projects which were divided into > subprojects; which is the case with HiveMind. All in all I was left > with a bad taste in my mouth. Yet I think it will be interesting to > see how Maven2 shapes up. > > Regards, > > --knut > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant Creator, Jakarta Tapestry Creator, Jakarta HiveMind Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support and project work. http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
