Also, this may have been written before the dependency plugin had the current feature set. I know when I first started using maven2 and the dependency plugin, it only had copy, unpack, and a couple of other goals. It didn't have everything it has now.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:56 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: maven vs openmake mesiter Heh, it looks to me like people who have had bad experiences with maven but not known the tools that can help. The command "mvn dependency:tree" would have saved them a paragraph of rant at least! Andy On 31 Mar 2008, at 22:59, Jason van Zyl wrote: > I have something written but it's not very nice. But we're obviously > a threat as they make comparisons to us. A victim of our own > success. I've also meant to follow up on when they started using the > term "Mojo" which definitely confuses people. For the sister Maven > project over at Codehaus called Mojo has been around quite a long > time. So I just didn't want to be disappointed and I'm hoping that > they didn't do it to confuse users. I am assuming not but I haven't > looked up the dates. > > I will try to remove the barbs from my write-up, as their marketing > I frankly find distasteful. But I'll try to be objective and publish > it. > > On 31-Mar-08, at 2:18 PM, Jason Chaffee wrote: >> I came across OpenMake's meister over the weekend and wondered if >> anyone >> on this list has any experience with or any comparison with Maven? I >> was just curious what the maven community's impression/response >> would be >> because they claim to have maven-like features, but they also claim >> to >> go "above and beyond" maven in flexibility and features. >> >> >> >> http://www.openmakesoftware.com/Maven-VS-Meister/ >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. > No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. > They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically > dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of > dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or > goals are in doubt. > > -- Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
