On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Michael MacFadden wrote: > All, > > I think we have gotten a little off track on the maven discussion. What it > has basically > boiled down to is a discussion on if we should migrate to maven or spend time > working on > other items. I don't think this is the right way to look at it at the > moment. Here are my > thoughts. > > 1) > We should asses whether maven is even something we like regardless of the > effort it > takes. What are the merits of maven? Do we agree that there would be a > benefit? > Assuming zero effort would we want maven? If the answer is no, then >everything else is > irrelevant. I think we need to have an objective conversation about this > first.
I'd like to point out also that there's a difference between using maven as the build system and providing maven artifacts. I'd definitely be in favor of the latter (if there aren't "official" artifacts, I'd deploy ones in our internal repo) whereas I have no strong opinion on the former. I unfortunately have no experience at all in maven deployment (just uploading jars into our internal artifactory repo, that's not what I'd call "maven deployment") so I'm afraid I can't help in this respect. -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/
