Note sure I'd agree make is all that simple... Unless you're doing something VERY basic then it's loaded with potential for accidental complexity. The whole philosophy of maven is to do the Right Thing(tm) by default, although I must admit that boilerplate for configuring plugins is frequently a pain in the proverbial
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Josh Suereth <[email protected]>wrote: > > I must say, I have not met a build system (besides automake) that > exceeded make in complexity. The amount of funny exceptions to rules > is astounding. I had far less trouble learning maven (in all its > complexity) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Alexy Khrabrov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Since the topic seems to have morphed into learning Scala and Lift by > > immersion in a day, as a recent Scala convert, I can't begin to > > emphasize how important it is to have the build infrastructure all > > done in a simple way to let novices focus on Scala. Lift is a good > > example where you have no choice and just follow magic Maven > > incantations. Another is Processing in Scala, where you can just do > > small sketches. If the assumption is that it is the Java crowd which > > comes to JVM mostly, it doesn't bootstrap non-JVM folks like those > > coming from Ruby and Haskell/OCaml. So I'm glad David covers the > > build systems in his book; there should really be an easier way to > > begin without making choices between Maven, SBT, Buildr, Ant, etc.! > > Nothing more complex than a good old command line and a Makefile in > > the same directory... Ideally SBT becomes a part of Scala and you'll > > have a --make option, or something like that. > > > > Cheers, > > Alexy > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
