On 8/8/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've seen comments for a while now how Maven is better than Ant... just a > few minutes ago James posted that Maven is "just smart software". I > didn't want to hijack that thread, hence this new one.
Good plan, that :-). My biggest concerns about Maven aren't so much technological (although I don't personally find the tradeoffs of what I get in stuff that "just works" versus what I give up in flexibility). My biggest concern is what's historically gone on with the Maven community (which might or might not still be the case ... haven't tried to find out) vs-a-vs user friendliness and support, but (more currently) the upcoming Maven1 -> Maven2 migration -- or rewrite, if there isn't any help being provided. I don't have any projects I work on that require Maven (since the Jakarta Commons folks tend to do a "maven ant" and check in the build.xml file as needed). Ant is sufficient for my needs, so I'd prefer to keep my life simpler. The impact of Ant-based development on others can be addressed by improving support for downloading dependencies (yes, that is a feature that Maven provides, but is certainly not limited to Maven). Beyond that, Maven doesn't offer me anything I want that is particularly hard to add to a build script myself. Craig PS: And yes, Maven1->Maven2 has a lesson there for all of us proposing Struts 2 approaches that are not backwards compatible, without thinking through what the migration story might need to look like :-). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
