On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Stephen Connolly wrote:
[snip]
> The reality is that the true goal of the Maven Way™ is that your pom should
> be as close as possible to the following
> 
> <project>
>   <groupId>...</groupId>
>   <artifactId>...</artifactId>
>   <version>...</version>
>   <packaging>...</packaging>
>   <dependencies>
>     ...
>   </dependencies>
> </project>
> 
> Every line you add to the above is moving further from the Maven Way™

Brilliant.  The above describes what the project *is*.  The more you
have to tinker with plugins and the like, the more likely you are
describing *how the project should be built*.  But if I have
understood the situation, Maven exists to figure out *how* after you
have told it *what*.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   [email protected]
Machines should not be friendly.  Machines should be obedient.

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