Ok, I guess that's a "no" :) I am not sure what sort of problems you
experienced but Maven is bit fickle -- especially in the first
version. It took me some time (and a little frustration) to get used
to it. But, now I swear by it. Anyway, this is really not that
important to me so it's not even worth a whole lot of discussion.
Max
On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote:
Actually, I am pretty much against maven right now. I don't have
that much experience with it, but my feeling is that it introduces
complexity with no real benefit. I prefer to know that by checking
out the repository (via cvs, svn, whatever) I've got *all* the
tools I need to build the application.
I took over a project a couple months ago that used maven and the
whole thing was totally f**ked up. I never even got it to build
properly before giving up and rewriting the whole build process
from scratch using just ant. Maybe the original author didn't set
it up right, but that definitely turned me off to maven.
-- Allen
Matt Raible wrote:
I don't see a problem with it - but if it ain't broke - why fix
it? ;-)
Matt
On 9/13/05, Rudman Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do people feel about "Mavenizing" Roller? For those who are not
familiar with it, Maven is "a software project management and
comprehension tool". It's is somewhat similar to Ant, in fact it
uses
Ant goals under the hood (though upcoming Maven2 does not), but it
also keeps metadata about the project which allows it to be much
more
intelligent.
The difference between Ant and Maven is like that between a
procedural and a declarative language. Instead of telling Ant what
to do in order to build, you tell Maven what you want done and it
figures out what needs to be done based on the XML configuration
file. Maven automatically tracks and downloads dependencies for you,
versions the artifact, produces documentation website with JavaDocs
and unit-test coverage reports.
I've "mavenized" Roller 1.x branch and would be happy to contribute
that to the project. Let me know if there is any interest in that.
You can learn more about Maven at http://maven.apache.org
Max
