That has been pretty much my experience with it. When it "just works" it is great. But...
On 2011-11-16, at 2:12 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: > My experience with Maven is: if everything works Maven is dead simple. BUT if > something went wrong you need a Maven-maven or become one to make it work > again (for those who don't know: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven_(disambiguation) : A maven is an expert in > a particular field.) > > Maven wants to be everything: your dependency management, your build tool, > your software live cycle, your release management and so on and on … Thus > Maven needs a lot of attention and knowledge if you need to fix something or > if you want to do something outlandish (outlandish in the sense of what Maven > engineers think is outlandish). It IS a tame beast if no problems of some > sort occur. But then again when is this the case? > > Lars (currently not using Maven and has a love-hate relationship to it) > > Am 16.11.2011 um 22:40 schrieb Andrew Lindesay: > >> Hello; >> >> I have used maven with non WO projects and my experiences have been mostly >> good. Using maven feels a bit like being on a lovely but narrow garden path >> (with all the beer and fermented shark you could ever want) through hell. >> If you diverge off the path (break maven conventions) then it's not a good >> place to be, but if you stay on the path then it's quite good. The neat >> thing I like is being able to go to Eclipse -> Import Project and it >> takes-up your project with dependencies. >> >> cheers. >> >>> I was chatting with our favorite Icelandic WO Dev and he said "Ant is >>> simple. Maven is simpler, though." >>> So, is Hugi right, or has the fermented shark finally pickled his brain? >> >> -- >> Andrew Lindesay >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/lars.sonchocky-helldorf%40hamburg.de >> >> This email sent to lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/chill%40global-village.net > > This email sent to ch...@global-village.net -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
