I keep thinking what we need are Maven distributions. Or at least one of them.
The big feature distributions add to the Linux world is that they do QA and select packages that work together. No one does this in the Maven world -- at least not that I am aware of. I don't think it is a technology issue, though. For me it seems more a social issue: we would need some kind of people who are willing to do the work (and work there is) and who would be trusted by others. Ideally there would be external test suites, checking dependencies throughout a whole stack (Hudson can be fun for such things). Sometimes I think it would be a good thing for a larger Java shop to do: streamline your in-house Java development with well-tested tools and publish the results as open distribution, which gives you respect and further testing. But it would require at least a full-time position, probably more. Peter Frederic Simon wrote: > My first big Maven 2 project was in 2005, and since then nothing > changed: I'm still amazed by the lack of version management and > promotion we used to have with Linux Debian "apt-get" in 1999!! > > The Debian guys understood perfectly what "bleeding", "test", "stage", > and "release" really means. And 10 years after, we still don't have > anything comparable in Maven?? > > Anyway, we (at JFrog) worked on trying to solve this issue in > Artifactory > http://blogs.jfrog.org/2009/11/search-based-promotion-staging-and.html > , > but the response so far can be qualified of "mild" :) > > I'm thinking: "Am I the only crazy guy out there annoyed by this?" > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
