On 18 May 2011 08:31, Antonio Petrelli <antonio.petre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/5/17 Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> > >> Looks useful to me. >> >> Download the ant task. Use this standard file. Execute. >> >> Save us maintaining a pointless build.xml. >> > > I don't think we need it at all. Don't you think that developers are able to > download Maven like they did for Ant?
Maven requires a lot more downloading than just the product. The first time you use Maven for a build, it will download a lot of other stuff, much of which is not (yet) needed. > I think that presuming that developers want always to use Ant for their > builds is an insult to their intelligence :-D What has intelligence to do with it? This is about providing choice. > Don't misunderstand me, Ant was a great tool, but now we have to move on, > like when most of us moved away from Java 1.4. Ant still is a great tool. But it has different goals from Maven. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
