Agreed. To be clear - as I understand it, there are two potential use cases for Maven with respect to Pivot:
1) Distribute Pivot artifacts via Maven for consumption by other projects 2) Use Maven to build Pivot itself Item #1 has some clear benefits as it will make Pivot more readily available to those developers who do use Maven. Item #2 is questionable since it will involve significant changes to our current build process and the value of making such a change has not yet been substantiated. On Monday, April 06, 2009, at 10:56AM, "Todd Volkert" <[email protected]> wrote: >I for one have not been operating under that assumption and agree with >all that you say in your email. I've had [very] little experience >with Maven on one prior project and thought that it was an awful large >hammer, but then again, I've heard some other people rave about it, so >it's probably the standard "use the right tool for the job" story. > >-T > >On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Christopher Brind <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Unless I've missed something (or maybe I'm reading between the lines) there >> seems to be an assumption that we're moving to Maven. >> >> I've never used Maven, though I do from time to review whether or not it >> will be useful to me. So far I haven't seen a use-case where it actually >> adds benefit (above and beyond anything I can put together in Ant), but >> that's just in my little world. >> >> My understanding is that once you go down the Maven route it is very hard to >> get out of it if you decide it's not for your project. It also seems like >> quite a big dependency to have for building your project. At the moment all >> I need is ant and an SVN client. >> >> I know there are a lot of Maven fans out there, so I'm open to giving it a >> chance, but I think we should all be committed to it. >> >> So before this project considers moving to Maven I would like to see: >> - a volunteer to be Maven champion >> - a list of benefits that it will add to the project >> - a list of disadvantages >> - a getting started overview for people working on pivot >> - a getting started overview for people working with pivot >> - an overview of how people working on pivot would work day to day >> - an overview of how people working with pivot would work day to day >> >> Then we should vote on it. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> > >
