I've have to totally agree. 200% The documentation is a total joke, it's hard to read and the maintainers don't seem to care to create a consolidated reference.
And, the book by Vincent Massol and Tim O'Brien is just a total rag. I mean really, full of typos and everything. C'mon, if Maven were so EASY, why wold we need to read anything to know how to use it. How do they expect us to start a multi-project build when the help documentation is TOTALLY BLANK! And, the fact that Maven forces you to use the ibiblio repository....puh-lease. You are right though, really I'd have to recommend gmake from now on. Maven is for the birds. I mean, seriously, what are we paying these people for!?! :-) Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Nanamura, Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to improve all the documentation for the Maven. > > I will not use Maven anymore since there are a bunch of thing missing > from the documentation (and a lot of things do not work like the J2EE > archetype which is nowhere to be find and I am not the only one to > complain about it). > > It is good for a simple project (then again, why should I need maven for > a simple Hello World project?). But if you add a J2EE layer or other > components, it simpy does not have document (for example no document for > the topic: "Guide to creating a multi-module build"). Then how should I > create a multi-project maven? What is this artifactId and groupID? What > the hell it keeps on going to the repo1.maven.org repository for my > sub-projects? What are the examples? No samples? > > The reference is a joke. How can a reference be so laconious? It is a > reference so every tag in the XML must have a good description (even the > description in the generated xml is better than the reference!). > > I do not recommend Maven to anyone starting a serious project for lack > of documentation and erroneous documentation. > > I spent the whole day try to make it work for a simple J2EE project, > then I had to google it several times for each error (it should be in > the document web-site). > Whereas I would take one hour to create the directories, my build and > deployment ant targets. > > Thanks but I'd rather do not use it, > > Roberto > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
