Two cents from a side On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Sylvain Laurent <sylvain.laur...@m4x.org> wrote: > > On 20 déc. 2011, at 12:22, Mark Thomas wrote: >> >> Where I disagree is on whether a switch to Maven lowers that barrier to >> entry. I agree it lowers it for folks that already know Maven but don't >> know Ant but that it raises it for folks that know Ant but don't know Maven. > > Knowing ant does not mean knowing how to build a particular project. That's > the big drawback of ant over maven : there's no convention/standard way of > doing things. > IMHO knowing maven is worth the investment and can be applied to so many > projects that the return on investment is quite quick.
whether I run ant release or mvn clean install there is no real difference to a new user, so I'd deny the argument. And in any complex build there are at least as many possibilities to achieve something with mvn as with ant, so standardization of the poms is a myth which mvn tries to sell (To start with something parent and aggregator in one pom or different, aggregator in parent folder or separate folder etc). Having said this, we moved all our projects to mvn about a year ago and we did't regret it. We did mainly because of dependency/publication management (after trying to publish to nexus with ant-ivy for three month) and reproducibility of builds. Together with jenkins/hudson integration it was a total win. </2 cents> regards Leon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
