On 11/06/2008, at 8:20 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
Am 11.06.2008 um 11:59 schrieb Q:
intuitive configurability as ant.
Uh. You're kidding, right? Right??
Probably not the best phrasing. By that I meant that ant is not magic,
you want it to do anything, it has to go into your build config. If
something is not in your build config, it's not going to magically
happen. This behaviour is, predictable, repeatable and deterministic,
making the scope of ant's "configurability" pretty intuitive, writing
that "configuration" is another story.
Maven on the other hand has magic, externally dependent plugins and
implicit behaviours that can change without warning over time if you
aren't careful about your dependency management, so you may not be
able to tell what your build is going to do just by looking at the
config. If your build used to work, and breaks later on, it might have
nothing to do with your build configuration and instead be the result
of some external dependency change outside your control, making it
potentially very difficult to resolve. This is not what I would call
intuitive configurability.
Cheers, Anjo
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