2007/2/15, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
My first impression of maven: Pretty websites as part of the build system - cool! And it's *great* for starting a new project... unit tests automatically run, website is built, automatic packaging, jar/war build, everything you need! But, it all seems like magic to me... if I want to do something different, even a minor little change, I don't know where to start. If I want to add an additional compile flag, where does that go??? I have no idea. To change the behavior (like using Java5 source) I need to google and find the magic incantation.
Are you saying that the first time you tried ant everything was immediately clear to you - no need to vistit ant.apache.org ? Maybe the benefits of maven pay off over the long run, but as one
casual/newbie user, it just seemed like too much of a black box that I can't quickly hack to get it to do what I want.
I have been "forced" to use m2 for the past year or so, but at this point I have to say thath I kind of like it (pervert me). Even my spine seems to like it, more than once I have tried to build various Lucene projects with mvn install or run unit tests with mvn clean test ;) -- Sami Siren
