On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 19:26, Paul Hammant wrote: > Folks, > > As promised I cornered first Vincent Massol and then James Strachan on > the subject of Maven and Jelly (though the latter is not as obviously > compelling to us). Getting close to them at the way-busier than usual > eXtreme Tuesday was difficult. It was a bit like Joseph Conrad's "Heart > of Darkness" (filmed as Apocalypse Now). > > Anyway, it seems Maven is ready for prime time. My previous assumption > is that Maven is best for template solutions (Excalibur's various > sub-projects being a good example). I was wrong it is just as good for > single highly customised project builds. Virtually everyone there left > with a good impression of Maven and a mental note to use it soon in > company and open-source solutions ASAP. I'm going to compare notes with > some people who have been using it for a while and see what they think. > Essentially though, I am left with the impression that we should phase > it in real soon.
I am willing to provide any help necessary to make this happen. I think that Peter found this time around that Maven was easy to build with. I have a couple more Avalon project descriptors and I am very keen to see more as I am now an Avalon user. Vincent is as well. I am reworking the plug-in mechanism this week and the POM will go through it's final phase of changes but we are estimating that these will be the final changes as we have received quite a bit of feedback. There's been ~1000 downloads of Maven from ibiblio so far, so we are getting some useful feedback now. There will be a beta-7 and probably a beta-8, after which we will enter into the release candidate phase. There will still be some changes but almost everything has been moved out of core so we have a small core with a satellite of plug-ins. I can keep making Avalon project descriptors, help others make them, help with a forrest plugin if that's what you would prefer to use for your docs and I will help keep them updated. At any rate I am hopeful that Maven can provide what you need to make things easier, generally more comprehensible for developers and especially make life easier for your users. > James spent quite a bit of time talking of Jelly. Way cool, check it > out: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jelly/ > > Regards, > > - Paul > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
