Dalibor Topic wrote: > But this is not the proper forum to discuss package management systems. > The thread is about using maven for package management, and I'm arguing > that it's not suited for it.
Dude, you keep missing the point! Maven *is not* and does not *pose* itself to be a package management system! It is a tool to build java libraries. And to document them. It is not concerned with the fact of the resulting library being specific to a single platform/architecture or general. Second, it allows assembling libraries into applications (war, ear, uber-jar etc). I guess you can compare such an application to a statically linked C programm. Chances are such application is not porable across some of the platforms in existence. It does support safe and easy replacement of bits that have been released with security fixes, or are available optimized in a platform specific manner. You have a better chance that with statically built C executable, but still you can break the application not knowing it. This may be considered unfortunate, but it's not Maven's mission to provide remedy for this situation. There is demand in Java community for statically assembled applications, and Maven meets this demand. I'd certainly love to see Maven running on as many platforms as possible, and being as much platform agnostic in the way it operates as it is possible. regards, R. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
