Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 3:11 AM, Brett Porter wrote: On 08/09/2009, at 8:06 AM, Jason Chaffee wrote: I understand that you probably don't want to commit to a date or cause undue expectations from anyone on this list, so let me ask it in a slight differently way. Do you think it might be

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 4:12 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: At one point the pom was going to be redone so that it wasn't going to be completely compatible. Later, I think the decision was made to keep it compatible. At one point there was

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of some mechanism) not have to do crazy wrappers. You said these extension points would be there, so I'm happy. (do note the smiley) 2.

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Stephen Connolly
For that to work you'd basically need to be able to round-trip between the yaml format and the xml format... otherwise the tooling in IDEs and in plugins like versions-maven-plugin, maven-release-plugin, etc will make changes and very soon the yaml file is just the seed file and bares no

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 9:49 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of some mechanism) not have to do crazy wrappers. You said these extension points

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
Ok. Sounds workable. Christian. On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:00 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 2009-09-08, at 9:49 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
for someone to do it at their own risk. kind regards, Jason From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats makes some of the things that the versions maven current

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason Chaffee
05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats makes some

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats makes some

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason Chaffee
To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats makes some of the things

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Brett Porter
On 08/09/2009, at 8:06 AM, Jason Chaffee wrote: I understand that you probably don't want to commit to a date or cause undue expectations from anyone on this list, so let me ask it in a slight differently way. Do you think it might be possible that we see a beta 3.x in 2009? One reason I ask

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Brett Porter
On 05/09/2009, at 6:25 AM, Brian Fox wrote: Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people are far slowest to change than in OpenSource

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Ralph Goers
On Sep 7, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Brett Porter wrote: On 05/09/2009, at 6:25 AM, Brian Fox wrote: Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: At one point the pom was going to be redone so that it wasn't going to be completely compatible. Later, I think the decision was made to keep it compatible. At one point there was support for having different pom formats but I'm not really

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Stephen Connolly
a big change for endusers. Still my 2 cents. Regards, Julien - Message d'origine De : Jason Chaffee jason.chaf...@zilliontv.tv À : Maven Developers List dev@maven.apache.org Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Jason Chaffee
Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats makes some of the things that the versions maven current does a little harder

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more

Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Julien HENRY
, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in it's config XML. It was really neat. If you preferred one over the other, you could use it. Don't know if it is still that way though. Jason

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Stephen Connolly
dev@maven.apache.org Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in it's config XML. It was really neat. If you preferred one over the other, you could use it. Don't know

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason van Zyl
: RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in it's config XML. It was really neat. If you preferred one over the other, you could use it. Don't know if it is still that way though. Jason

RE: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason Chaffee
] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason van Zyl
to do it at their own risk. kind regards, Jason From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Fox
Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people are far slowest to change than in OpenSource project team). Please, please don't mess

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
So I agree that it is a valid concern, and there needs to be a canonical format (which will probably be XML) which all artifacts are saved as - but in my source tree, it should be entirely possible to have an alternate way to specify, since often I've found that XML- hatred is a barrier to

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-04, at 10:59 PM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So I agree that it is a valid concern, and there needs to be a canonical format (which will probably be XML) which all artifacts are saved as - but in my source tree, it should be entirely possible to have an alternate way to

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
Who said anything about a reasonable person? :) I don't have such a hatred - I'm quite used to it, but it has come up in nearly every client in the last 3 years - not as a final or deal-breaking barrier to adoption, but a barrier nonetheless. I'm happy to support it - I just need a seam

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
dismissed them as I like using XML myself. Jason From: Christian Edward Gruber [christianedwardgru...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Who said anything about a reasonable

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Benedict
using XML myself. Jason From: Christian Edward Gruber [christianedwardgru...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Who said anything about a reasonable person? :) I don't

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
:29 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Who said anything about a reasonable person? :) I don't have such a hatred - I'm quite used to it, but it has come up in nearly every client in the last 3 years - not as a final or deal-breaking barrier to adoption

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
From: paulus.benedic...@gmail.com [paulus.benedic...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Benedict [pbened...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:05 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Yes, the XML is verbose, and tooling helps but I think most people write

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
...@zilliontv.tv] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:27 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x I like the idea of having some things as attributes. See the following links on information on when to use attributes and when to use elements. http://www.ibm.com