Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
> Vincent Keunen wrote:
>
>> Ok, so to summarize, we were discussing about choosing between maven
>> and forrest, and now you are telling us that centipede is also nice
>> to look at... So you're making our choice harder! ;-)
>
>
> ;-)
>
>> Nicola, how does Centipede positions itself in regard to maven and
>> forrest?
>
>
> Ok, let me give you a broad picture of what is happening.
>
> We needed a system to make cool documentation out of the Java source
> code of the Apache projects, hence Alexandria was born.
> Now I'm ready to commit new code into it from donations, that will
> make it a complete ant-based solution for source code comprehension.
>
> We needed a nice system to make site documentation and have automated
> site publishing and community helper resources: Forrest was born,
> mainly out of the need of the xml.apache.org site.
> It will play well with other projects such as Alexandria, given that
> they prepare the stuff in Forrest DTD, similar to XHTML, with only the
> semantical tags.
>
> We needed a system to make automated builds out of the latest and
> greatest code... hence Gump was born, and it works well.
> The problem is that it's difficult to set up, so we are working to
> make it easier to use.
>
> I needed an easy system to make builds based on Ant, that would tie
> all the above projects together and add library and plugin download to
> the mix, hence Centipede.
> I have worked well with the Ant folks, and the new XmlProperty task
> and part of the new embed proposal come from Centipede.
>
> Above all, it's Forrest Gump in Alexandria on a Centipede ;-)
>
> Maven was born out of a proposal for Gump replacement that was geared
> towards building Turbine.
> Eventually Jason forked and continued on the Turbine site.
> I proposed collaboration, since Centipede already had plugins and
> Maven didn't, but I got very harsh replies.
> Then Jason got plugins working with Jelly and Werkz, and abandoned Ant
> as a framework.
>
> The bottom line: I recommend you to wait before final releases of
> *both* projects, and then raise a vote.
+1
(from Steve who doesn't have any voting rights here)
;-)
>
>
> Thanks :-)
>
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