Philip Mark Donaghy wrote:
Hi David,
On 1/19/07, David Sean Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know man, i've about had it with this m...
OK, I'll edit the POM and put it up on my repo
Thanks for digging into that one
Maven's problem is that no one ever deletes their repository. Because
is is such a pain in the ass to rebuild.
There are two maintenance problems. The remote repository as you know
very well and the local repository. I think maven is a good build
platform. It's not better than ant but rather more efficient with
multiproject build managment and documentation and reporting.
I updated both Maven-1 and Maven-2 remote repositories recently (Maven-2
just this morning). I try to keep them up-to-date.
Personally, I don't like having two builds. Its too much work for me to
keep both builds working. If we had a committer who was dedicated to
each build, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Ant was perfect we just stored all the necessary jars in the source
repository.
I propose that we just do this again and instruct users to build
offline. But the first task is to reduce the size of the repository.
I'm going to take this task on.
It's not as if maven is saving bandwidth. Checking out the source with
dependencies and building using a remote repository results in the
same bandwidth use. Storing the jars in svn reduces the maintenance
work associated with remote repositories.
Ant is fine. Whatever the community likes best.
At this point I am tired of arguing the benefits of Maven.
Gawd knows I've tried hard to convince people to like Maven, but it has
been a losing battle.
After the 2.1 release, I would like to see Jetspeed move towards tighter
integration with WTP, and achieving custom build tasks via the GUI as
well as the command line.
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Bluesunrise Software
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