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Vyacheslav Sakhno commented on IVY-1414:
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I've read a lot Maven documentation and articles instead of book. There is a
number of reason to migrate from maven. My current reason is that project build
code is written as a number of Ant targets which must be executed separately.
In maven I need to create separate pom.xml files. There are no way to separate
execution of Ant targets within one Maven lifecycle. I also don't like Maven
because it have no good support for building graphs of projects(they must be
located in the same directory and form a tree of projects, that is not always
the case). For more reasons you can see Hibernate site explanaing for migration
from Maven to Gradle. This is why i prefer at least procedural way,
Turing-complete language way, to build projects which Ant and Gradle provide
instead of fixed lifecycle. But beeing pragmatic to new technologies and
looking for a best support in IDE for build tool i choose Ant + Maven used as
Ivy(dependency download only) with drawbacks described before in this message.
> create possibility for easy transition from Maven
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> Key: IVY-1414
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1414
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Vyacheslav Sakhno
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> Maven is declarative and not easy to understand build system. To build
> several target they must be sequenced and executed together as a part of
> lifecycle. That slowdown build speed by N times for N targets. The only
> functionality maven do well is dependency management which is equivalent to
> Ive functionality. So is does make sense to move to Ant+Ivy instead of Maven.
> I suggest to improve support for that migration:
> Make Ivy support maven dependency format: easy to implement for one developer
> but removes 1 hour hand work for thousands developers over the world.
> Also make support of reading dependencies from maven repo and publishing the
> to it.
> Though it is easy work to do it makes Ive more attractive for transition from
> Maven.
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