I was a long-time Ant + Ivy and IvyDE. At work, we finally switched one of our products to Maven. We have at least one other product that still uses Ant + Ivy, I'm not sure what that team operates as an IDE.
>From my POV, you can't effectively and sanely develop using Ivy *without* IDE support, in our case, that was Eclipse and IvyDE. Gary On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 9:23 AM Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi > > sorry for my bad timing sending out an email and then being unbale to > answer for days. This is not what I intended. > > Let me try to answer what I've seen so far. And I'll try to keep my > personal opinion out this time. > > It is pretty obvious Ivy is used today and maybe even loved by > some. This is great for any project. > > As is probably true with all volunteer based open source projects people > come and go as their interests and focus change. > > In the case of Ivy this unfortunately means it is not maintained well > today and this is not going to change with the current set of Ant > developers. All of us work on Ant in our spare time and we've picked > developing Ant for several different reasons - none of these reasons > seem to apply to Ivy for anybody of us. > > It is not my intention to kill Ivy. Not at all. But if maintenance of > Ivy is left with the current set of Ant developers this is what is > likely going to happen, eventually. > > It just seemed to be fair to inform Ivy's users about the current > state. > > Cheers > > Stefan >
