Yeah, all I see is a silly name and no compelling reason to look further. Why should I look at it and how does it make life better? Seen it mentioned at conferences but just as another way to install something already super simple to install. So what is compelling about it?
cheers On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:15 PM Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- -- jesse mcconnell [email protected]
