On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:26:44 -0500, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Goers wrote: > > I believe what you are suggesting would require that the Cocoon build be > > converted to use Maven. While I personally would welcome that, this has > > been discussed before and for some reason several committers won't > > support that. Sorry. > I was the one pushing back for that. Since then I've taken a deep > review of Maven and I like some of the archiectural concepts. > So, saying "no way" is a little bit too much. I would welcome if > somebody tried and did it and it worked.
I would tend to agree - I've used maven a little recently, despite initially disliking it, and I have to say, it works. There are significant chunks of it I still don't like (personally, I think it needs significant re-design -- I'd prefer to see it built on top of a proper plug-in architecture like Hivemind), but it does do the job well, providing you use it for what it's designed for: building one thing at a time. Try and use it the way you'd use Ant, and you're in for a bumpy ride. Personally, I've started about 5 projects internally using Maven in as many months, and none using raw Ant during the same period. > But I have no energy/time/will/itch-to-scratch to do it myself. Same problem here :( Paul
