Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: > on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Which basically boils down to "let's just invent our own little language >>and try to get enough people bragging about it" > > > It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: >on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Which basically boils down to "let's just invent our own little language >>and try to get enough people bragging about it" >> > >It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well >known/u

RE: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: > > Wasn't this entire thing > > about community building? So what do we really want: using > technology we > > invented on our own, alienating possible new users, or sticking to > > common standards? > > Using technology that is well supported, developed by a > community of people > w

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-01 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which basically boils down to "let's just invent our own little language > and try to get enough people bragging about it" It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well known/used API (DOM4J). > Come on, this

RE: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-01 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: > I can agree with that. Hell, the dvsl vs. xsl is a showstopper for me. > > I can't stand XSL... > > > I'm also a little worried about the size/vocality of the centipede > > developer community. Krysalis lists (in the archive) total > 53 posts. Maven > > dev (includes cvs) has 780, an

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-01 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 2:54 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Centaven Reasoning: I don't see how we can easily do this. The approaches > are wildly different at basic levels, e.g. dvsl vs xsl, entities vs > external build files for ant, extending GUMPs descriptor vs generating one > etc. A