Again, I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers so please do not take it
personally. I really do like the concept of Maven and I am trying to get
it incorporated into our environment. We also have people here that are
currently using Ant and are on 1.6 version. I think Maven is a next
natural step beyond Ant but getting people to switch from Ant 1.6 and move
back to something utilizing Ant 1.5.3 would make it harder for me to
convince people to switch.
Furthermore, as Ant continues to progress relying on an old version opens
up Maven to risk whether real or perceived. The perception risk is Maven
uses old Ant = not current, not good. Regardless of how well Maven may
function perception counts.
Regards,
Earl Hokens
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Subject: Re: Compatibility with Ant 1.6?
On Oct 14, 2004, at 09:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't want to overstep my bounds but even with significant
> compatibility
> issues I think that it would be crucial to keep up with the
> progression of
> Ant. Eventually, you'd have to abandon Ant or incur an even bigger
> compatibility problem. Not keeping up may encourage people to abandon
> Maven.
I don't see how any of your points are logical conclusions of not using
the "latest and greatest" version of Ant. Whichever version of Ant is
currently used in Maven, will continue to work in Maven. Ant going to
version 1.7, or 2.0, won't suddenly cause Maven to stop working. And if
Maven is still working, why would I abandon it? Certainly not just
because there's a newer version of Ant available.
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