So by sell, I meant an idea too. I'm forever trying to sell things I think are best, but am not going to make money from.
Can you link to the conversations about the lack of Maven in SDKMAN-land? Did you understand what I was getting at in my last mail? You didn't address them, which is your right of course. On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Marco Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > I really am not trying to sell anything. I'm trying to help your community. > You will get no *arguments* in favour or against from me. > > My users keep asking for Maven on SDKMAN, and I sincerely wish to give them > what they ask for. Whether the community is willing to lend a hand is > entirely up to the *committers* of this project. > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 at 00:12 Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Marco, > > > > You could sell your idea better, I think. You have "Most of the big > > projects want to do this" as one of the stronger arguments in favor, > which > > isn't enough. For 20 years, Lean/Agilistas have focussed on "what is the > > problem you're trying to solve?". And that is the question, I personally* > > would want to make to you. > > > > * I'm an interloper to this list, not a committer. > > > > Maven experts really do one setup thing: "brew install maven" (or equiv). > > > > Then they clone repos that purport to be example applications for the > think > > they want (SpringBoot, Grails). Then they mvn install that and the bits > of > > the SDK they need come down to their local cache. It has been four years > > since I last acquired a new JVM technology any other way. > > > > - Paul > > >
