> Your email did not meet this standard. dpp, I'm glad you addressed this. My initial response, which I deleted, would not have helped the situation. Yours was measured and mature.
Ty On Jul 5, 4:32 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Douglas Quaid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I heard some good vibes about Lift and then I saw this gem in the > > "Getting Started" documentation for creating a project: > > > From a command prompt, type: > > > mvn archetype:generate -U \ > > -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \ > > -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic \ > > -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \ > > -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases\ > > -DgroupId=com.liftworkshop \ > > -DartifactId=todo \ > > -Dversion=0.1-SNAPSHOT > > > Perhaps you guys could "innovate" and wrap this crap (rhyme!) in a > > shell script. > > Howdy, > > I'll address your post in two parts. First the form, and then the > substance. > > This community is a welcoming (especially to newbies), kind, and generally > cool place to hang out. People in this community are here to help each > other and to grow the knowledge, skills, and code around Lift. We welcome > feedback and comments and ways to improve Lift. But we ask that people are > polite and helpful. Your email did not meet this standard. So, in the > future, please treat this community the way that you would like to be > treated. Approach this community the way you would like to be approached by > a stranger. > > In terms of the substance of the issue, we've have a fair number of > discussions about this over the years. The first problem is a bootstrap > problem. Even if we have a shell script to wrap the maven command, how do > we get it into users' hands? The second problem is an OS support issue. > Such a script is easy to write for Linux/Unix/OS X. It's not so simple to > make sure it works on Windows as a separate .bat file as well as a shell > script that works under Cygwin. We did do some testing of such a script as > part of the installer and it always led to problems and we never found a > person or collection of people who were willing to write, test and maintain > such a script. So, we decided that the cost of copy/paste of a copy of > lines of Maven invocation was less of a priority than other Lift-related > development. > > And as a practical matter, I probably create more Lift projects than anyone > else. It was only a few weeks ago that I made a script out of the above > command rather than copy/pasting it. I'm hardcore lazy and into making my > life easier (I would be using other frameworks if it wasn't faster and > easier for me to build a framework to do dynamic stuff rather than work > around the suboptimal decisions made in other frameworks) and in the case of > the Maven command to create a new Lift project, it just wasn't that hard. > > So, if you would like to write up some scripts and post them in a public > place, that'd be great. If you're the guy who is going to step up to the > task of maintaining a complex cross-section of scripts, we'll link to your > work and reference it in any way we can. > > Thanks, > > David > > > > > Good day! > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
