>>If you'd rather add a <get> for all the dependencies and >>depdendencies of dependencies and dependencies of ... well, you're probably >>beyond all hope of help to start with. Well, that is why 'get' is better :) - via transitive dependencies usually we get soooo many unnecessary jars that is creates appearance of monstrous needs of an application.
Transitive dependencies are nice and can work (see Gentoo) but Maven handles them IMO rather poorly. But the fact that you have described makes me believe that it is dead easy to replace maven with pure Ant. ----- Original Message ---- From: Evan Chooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@wicket.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:15:11 PM Subject: Re: First Day Disgust! You could also look at how qwicket uses ant+maven tasks to build a system. The maven tasks handle downloading dependencies and ant does everything else. I know there's still that dependency on maven libs but it's just for the dependencies. And that's still miles ahead of using <get> to manage dependencies. If you'd rather add a <get> for all the dependencies and depdendencies of dependencies and dependencies of ... well, you're probably beyond all hope of help to start with. There may or may not be issues with repository availability but if you put something like artifactory between you and the maven repositories, most of those issues go away. In addition, you can deploy your own dependencies locally that have no maven presence anywhere and continue to use the same dependency definition scheme throughout your project. I don't like maven much either but I'd personally not manage my dependencies by hand. On 9/11/07, Konstantin Ignatyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Ivy but I think that you are precisely correct: people will > complain. I think that Ant's "get" command would be ideal and better than > list of dependencies in README because it will explicitly point to the > sources and it is easy to modify repository host if necessary. > > > Konstantin Ignatyev > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: users@wicket.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:30:21 PM > Subject: Re: First Day Disgust! > > On 9/11/07, Konstantin Ignatyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > + generate ant build file to compile project and start jetty. That will > make me happy as a lark :) > > > > I like Maven's idea and promise but implementation is not that great to > my taste .... > > Then maybe Ant + Ivy would be good. Though people might start > complaining about having to have Ivy installed. > > Eelco > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
