I _totally_ agree and in my ever so humble opinion this should be
made the top priority for new features as I can't think of a bigger
payoff for what I guess is just writing a new flavor of Mojo. You
would start to see a serious number of users flock to Maven -
familiarity is a powerful tool, which is why Ivy is doing so well.
Lets learn the Microsoft lesson of embrace and extend!
1. Embrace Ant - loads of people use Ant
2. Think through the eclipse plugin a lot more - loads of people use
Eclipse
What a great story that would be to take onto your random new project.
On 14 Sep 2005, at 17:08, John Casey wrote:
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Actually, what I'd really like to see in the future is the convergence
of Ant APIs and Maven build process to form one ultra-rich platform
for
running builds and developing build plugins. If you still want to run
Ant scripts, you have an optional ant-build jar or somesuch that
you can
include in your classpath...otherwise, Ant would become a utility
project in many ways.
My 2-cents.
- -john
Mark Hobson wrote:
| On 14/09/05, Ashley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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|>Mark, I see what you mean about autodeducing the war file with a
pure
|>maven plugin. However wouldn't it be easier to write a mapping layer
|>that passes the maven war location to the ant task and any other
|>properties too?
|>
|>So instead of writing the tomcat plugin from scratch, you would
|>simply wrap the ant tomcat bean with a maven ant adapter together
|>with a property/xml file describing the map from maven to ant bean
|>properties.
|
| [snip]
|
| This is what John was describing above with regard to an ant
adapter.
| I could have done this with the tomcat plugin, but after looking at
| the tomcat ant tasks I decided they were too tied in with ant. The
| core of the maven tomcat plugin is maven-independent
| (TomcatManager.java) and would ideally be shared between the maven
| plugin and the ant tasks.
|
| Mark
|
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