just to repeat "i have been able to answer every question I have been asked" thats not to say every question but to say every question that in "my" experience new users have asked... often they proceeded to go and do something else anyway but thats beside the point...
modules are way overused IMO and do cause lots of problems usually because people confuse parent poms and modules projects when really they are not the same thing... On Monday 24 September 2007 22:32, Graham Leggett wrote: > Michael McCallum wrote: > > with a few subtle exceptions related to bugs that are fixed in 2.0.7 > > every question i've been asked in regard to using maven2 has been found > > in the documentation in under 5 minutes > > That depends just how much of maven you are using. You might choose to > use maven to build you a jar. Or you might have many jars, and arrange > tham as dependencies of one another. Then you might go one step further > and create many jars released at once in a multi-module configuration. > Then you might choose to start using the maven release process to handle > releases, and you might choose to run your own maven repository > infrastructure. > > I can tell you from experience that getting the above working took a > significant amount of time and effort, and in some cases, it involved > stepping through maven modules in a debugger to figure out what the > modules were doing. > > Many things about maven can be found in the documentation in 5 minutes, > but to say that "every question" can be answered by the maven docs in > under 5 minutes does both maven and maven users a disservice. > > Maven is an extremely valuable tool, but it is by no means trivial. > > Regards, > Graham > -- -- Michael McCallum Enterprise Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
