Of course we thought of that already. You can do: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://scala-tools.org/
That sound help you out. Moreover, SBT is not so ugly... Cheers, Tim On 7 Feb 2010, at 14:10, mjy wrote: > Posting here even though it's not really a "support" issue: > > I've just begun reading the "getting started" guide and > tripped over this minor(?) inconsistency: I like the principle of > having sane defaults and <quote>you don’t need to write anything that > isn’t explicitly necessary for the task at hand</quote>. But then I > saw the Maven stanza required to build a skeleton project (repeated > further down in that document): > > mvn archetype:generate -U \ > -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \ > -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank \ > -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \ > -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases \ > -DgroupId=demo.helloworld \ > -DartifactId=helloworld \ > -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT > > Why doesn't Lift include some wrapper for Maven that > hides this ugliness? I'm sure that a lot of people would appreciate > it... > > Marinos > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.