> I guess many of the issues I don't like about maven could be helped with > more knowledge about Maven, customized plugins, hackish workarounds, or > any other kind of additional work. It's the sum of all together and the > amount of work required which lead me away from Maven. I list these > issues in no particular order.
We see "rants" like this every few months from someone. And the fact that this is your 4th email to this group suggests that you have generally been "going it alone" rather than leaning on this group as needed for help. (Note: this is not an open call for n00bs to blast this list with the most basic of queries.) Obviously, the documentation etc can only take you so far. While this users list cannot answer every question you may have, I think your overall experience with Maven would have been improved if you had sent some of these questions/issues to this list previously looking for help rather than letting it all boil up for months and eventually releasing it in this email. Regarding "writing your own build tool" -- I think this is probably a bad idea, but of course, you are welcome to disagree. If you have decided to abandon Maven, perhaps take a look at "buildr" and other tools (you already mentioned ivy) that have taken ideas from Maven and incorporated the Central repository as a source of dependency artifacts etc. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
