"Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Given that Maven still hasn't reached an official 1.0 release in almost 3 > >years of development..... > > hey, now... Struts 1.1 took a darn long time! I bet they're in the > same boat. Plenty of people who don't really track version numbers > are using it happily, so the urge to actually cut a release is not > too strong.
I'm not claiming we're angels, but we're doing a lot better than Maven is. ;-) From Struts 1.0.2 Final to Struts 1.1 Final took 1 year, 4 months. During that time, people still had a Final release to work with. Maven has been in development for almost *3* years, with *no* Final release to work with... > > >That said, there are some intrepid Maven fans who are working on getting the > >Maven build for Struts to the same point as the Ant build system > > My enthusiasm for Maven is all about lowering the barrier to entry. I used to share that enthusiasm. It has faded over time, however, as it became apparent to me that, once you get past the easy part, writing preGoal and postGoal scripts isn't much different from writing Ant scripts. Oh, and Maven changing the way it does things didn't help either. ;-) > I think long-time Ant/Struts builders forget how tedious it is to set > up the build.properties file. And that's just to compile; if you use > an IDE you have another headache getting a Struts project set up. That is certainly true. One of the things Maven does for you, to ease the build process, is decide where the dependencies are going to come from. If we did that in the Ant build files, it would make it almost as simple as Mave, but then, because they're Ant build files, people would complain that they were not sufficiently flexible. That makes it hard to win. ;-) (When it comes to IDEs, though, most of them know about Ant, but don't yet know about Maven at all, so there's not so much of a case for Maven there, IMHO.) -- Martin Cooper > > Anyway, no need to proselytize... > > Joe > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
