> And yes, I specifically intend this to apply to XML. I can't see how > moving to a YAML model would be anything but a win for maven.
It feels like your entire complaint about Maven boils down to the use of XML in the pom... You can't simply accept this as a trade-off for the other benefits offered by Maven, or offer up an alternative YAML/JSON-style pom file format (that you've developed) ala polyglot?? Yes, the XML is not hugely user-friendly. Yes, an alternative format that is more user-friendly would be nice. The existence of polyglot is sufficient evidence of these points. But I have never felt this alone was a huge barrier to Maven adoption nor to my own personal usage of Maven -- generally hand edited in vi or another similar tool, I don't use m2e often. And I'm not even a PMC member like Stephen. ;-) If Maven 4 moved to a YAML/JSON model, would that make you happy enough to use Maven and simultaneously solve world hunger, bring peace to the world, etc? Or would you just find more things to complain about? ;-) Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
