Perhaps you'd be interested in Polyglot Maven? http://polyglot.sonatype.org/
--b ______________________________ Brian M. Carr Identity and Access Management ITS Applications University of Texas at Austin V: 512-232-6419 F: 512-471-5746 [email protected] On Oct 26, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote: >> If a build can be described as a small number of facts, XML is an >> unobjectional representation for those facts. If a POM fits on a page, >> verbosity of XML is just not an issue. > > Yeah, but a build often does not fit on a page, and I'm building some pretty > simple stuff! > > To argue for the flexibity of Maven is (AFAIK) defensible. It's power (from > what little knowledge I have), likewise. > > But, I'm sorry to say, the verbosity of XML is a major, major issue. I bring > you back to the simple fact of: If XML were so expressive, why aren't most > modern languages written in XML? If programmers had to write their systems in > a dialect of XML, put in the redundant tags, escape everything that _isn't_ a > literal, etc., then we would have very poor programmer productivity. > > I've looked at pages and pages of POM files, trying to learn things. And my > conclusion is that Maven was _fundamentally flawed_ in choosing XML as its > base. > > Cheers, > Ken > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
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