> > Except that there are two setup steps now instead of one. > > Sorry I'm missing something, what are the two setups?
Need to checkout maven, then maven-plugins, then set the properties appropriately if you didn't use the defaults. > No, as part of the bootstrap you have to check out modules. > It really isn't that arduous a task and it is the bootstrap. I agree, its not that hard - it just reminds me a little of the tomcat 4 build and that makes me cringe automatically :) > A Maven source distribution? Why do we need that? > People can either bootstrap using whatever we tell them to do > or use the binaries we build. We've never made a source > distribution I don't see why we would start now. I can think of some reasons, but none of them really apply now, but to the components. There's nothing seriously wrong with the new setup, and I prefer it to how it was. Something just makes me feel a little uneasy, like we are going to get a lot of people complaining it doesn't work... - Brett
