On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm more than happy to try to get the details right - I'm not aiming to > merely meet the minimum necessary requirements but to do the "right thing" > now. We're learning.
Uhuh. I think that's true for just about every project out there -- you can bet your ass that 10 years ago, apache released a lot of software that didn't follow all of these (most of these?) current guidelines. I think as the FLOSS movement matures, we are learning how to do this better and better. A few more years and someone will figure out how to automate it properly :) > I guess all of us use maven (or etc) dependency management Well, hmm, so, I tend to have to use maven for work java projects, but I will avoid it like the plague when I can [1]. I'm a minority like that I guess (I also refuse to use eclipse, for example). I decided to go from "knows lots about ant and maven" to "claims not to know anything about maven" a while ago, it's much more comfortable that way. > but it's a real barrier for people starting out with > Java, semantic web all at the same time, and not just students doing > projects. Ditto people who use the command line tools. Yeah I totally agree. Having something where you can go 1) download, 2) import some N3, 3) write sparql queries is pretty vital. When I got started with RDF so many years ago I'm pretty sure having a nice phat jena distro made me very happy. cheerio...... - Leo [1] my idea of a good build system is https://github.com/lsimons/jhttp/blob/master/build.sh
