I wouldn't say maven is difficult to setup. I'm certainly a maven newb but was able to get our projects building with maven and our in house nexus repository within 2 weeks. And I had 0 ant/ivy experience as well. I only wish our company had our own build engineers to setup and manage the environment, I'm guessing most big shops do this and don't let the devs admin their own artifact repository server.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: users-return-122692-Meeusen.Christopher=mayo....@maven.apache.org [mailto:users-return-122692-Meeusen.Christopher=mayo....@maven.apache.or g] On Behalf Of Brian Topping Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:21 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Kudos Yah, I'd have to agree with this sentiment. Maven isn't the easiest thing to learn, but documentation has improved remarkably over the years and the "network effect" of having more people familiar with Maven means that there's Maven experts that are closer to more people in real life. More thanks to all the folks that made this happen! On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Laird Nelson wrote: > Mailing lists are often overrun with people complaining and reporting > bugs and squabbles and whatnot. I wanted to take a brief moment to > simply say thanks to all for what has finally evolved into a really useful product. > > I love the fact that I can pull down most open source projects these > days, and, without really thinking too hard about it, pull up their > pom.xml file and at least have a rough idea of what they're trying to accomplish. > > I love that building and installing such a project has become as > simple as mvn clean install. > > I love that I don't have to get in the head of whichever > build-engineer-of-the-moment crafted a hand-rolled Ant or Gradle > build. I love that as bulky and annoying as it can be, at least XML > is declarative and easily read. > > Anyhow, thanks. Maven is not an easy system to learn, but once you do > it pays off. > > Best, > Laird --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
