On 9 Sep 2012, at 22:20, "KARR, DAVID" <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the disadvantages of Gradle is the same as Ant, which is that it's 
> very easy to have two people do similar things in a completely different way.

This to me is the fatal flaw in ant and all tools like it. Ant allows the 
developer to do whatever they like, and so they do, unnecessarily different to 
everyone else, and this difference must be debugged, documented and learned, 
over and over again, wasting countless hours and money.

In contrast, Maven represents discipline.

To understand maven one first has to understand discipline in software 
engineering, why there is no value in solving a solved problem in a way that is 
different but no better than solutions that have gone before. Why the best 
documentation is simply no documentation at all. Why the gift of a repeatable 
build is priceless to the person who has to fix a bug under stressful 
conditions.

Regards,
Graham
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