Sean Owen wrote:
I agree I don't like two build systems. I have never really gotten
into maven myself, but I have had only passing familiarity with it. I
always seem to need to do something a little tricky in the build which
only Ant will support, given that it's the more general tool (but with
disadvantages too), and so, having Ant in place, that pretty much
argues against maven because I can't justify the second build system.
Yes, there is this plugin system which can bridge the gap with some work.
I could be convinced otherwise, but at the moment my gut is that I am
not seeing enough value to switch to really feel compelled to support
it.
Hello,
I have some existing systems that use ant and I considered switching
to Maven for the
support Maven has for external libraries. We don;t want to deal with
the license issues
for some jars so we could put that on the user by providing a Maven
approach. We found
that we would have run our own repository since many of the files
are still not in the
Maven repository. So you might want to see what your dependencies are.
It is a lot to learn and not like ant where youc an get something
going in a day or two for
most users. I was not able to reuse much of my previous ant scripts
so where I am with Maven is
BTW -- I am new to this group. I was lead one of the technical leads
on Sun Grid and
implemented something called Hadoop on demand. I am currently
working on a Doctorate
and working with various Open Source libraries like Ling, Mallet,
Solr, Mallet, OpenNLP
trying to test out hypothesis on large data sets. I find that Yahoo
and Google
don't provide information that could be available in Solr.
Grant -- your presentation at the Chrlotte JUG was really good, I
wasn't there but I
really like your slides.
Rinaldo
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've traditionally been resistant to Maven, but am now thinking maybe we
should just go that route and use the Ant plugin when we need to. I really
don't like having two build systems, esp. since they slip out of date so
easily.
Thoughts?
-Grant
