Well, ANT is a development tool as well ... :-). Thinking along these lines we should add the JARs to the binary distribution
I know absolutely nothing about Maven, but AFAIK it is a developer tool and not for being used by the end user. In other words, I'd still recommend that these jar files are being added to the binary distribution. If you feel, you are able to do this with Ant, fine for me.
No. Maven can be used to copy all of the dependencies to the output directory, where all of it can be zipped up into the binary distribution.
Let's not move backwards here. Maven provides all of the functionality of Ant, and addresses many problems beyond what Ant can do. Adding jars into the CVS repository that can be fetched using Maven is a step backwards in my opinion.
I understand the reluctance to learn a new tool. We're all very busy. But Maven is a better tool, full stop. Avoiding it is like an attempt to avoid the future. IMHO, the goals we need from build.xml should be copied/ported in the maven build file, and build.xml should be removed from CVS.
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Steve
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"Always ... always remember: Less is less. More is more. More is
better. And twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad. And too
much is never enough except when it's just about right."
-- The Tick
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