>> My point was only that I've seen projects disintegrate when 
>> they began to insist that the rest of the world conform to 
>> them _unnecessarily_.

> I think the opposite has happened with Maven though. Compared 
> to Ant you are greatly more restricted in what you can do.

True, but the restrictions it has seemed to have a purpose. I think that's
because Maven hit the right balance of allowing flexibility where it was
useful and not where it wasn't.

> For example, if the build directory wasn't configurable ever would it 
> have crossed people's minds to make it configurable or would they have 
> worked with it. I'm not sure.

IMO, it would have.

> I want to start doing little surveys of usage and if it was
> found it was a feature used 20% or more users I wouldn't consider
> changing it. 

Fair enough.

Wordman

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