Hey, Maven rocks, it gets the job done, it is vastly easier than any alternative, and is comparatively a pure joy. There is quite simply zero chance that the use of maven would be changed.
Learning maven is hard because what it is doing is immensely complex not because maven is hard as far a build tools go. If you want hard, play for ten minutes building any complex C program from source. Autoconf and Automake are very powerful too but it takes a programming god to master them. And after your ten minutes have become two weeks, come back and enjoy maven. The benefits of maven are too many to list. Having a single build tool for the whole project makes developers need only learn a single one. Using maven allows external tools like hudson to run the build. Using maven allows us to get libraries off the standard repositories. Using maven... cheers, -adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
