On Mar 6, 2:20 pm, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > > > Okay... sorry... but this is a gratuitous swipe. Ugly == Not Easy to Use. > > > Nope. Sorry. I don't buy this. > > > Maven commands that wont copy and paste correctly == Not Easy To Use. > > Im not sure it is difficult to copy and paste: > mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://scala-tools.org/ > > Its one line... easy. Im not saying maven does not suck, but this is > one the wiki home page people...
My boss wants to check out lift, help the html designer do some template cleanup. He goes to liftweb.net, clicks on getting started (a pretty reasonable first choice). Finds the section on creating a new project, copies the maven command. It doesn't work, with a cryptic error. He's a smart enough guy to eventually figure out to put it all on one line in the shell, but what do you think his impression of the project is at this point? > > > I don't see a "how to use SBT" or "how to make Maven suck less" page > > in the wiki, can I write one? > > The wiki is completely open. Yes. Ok, cool, i'll try to get something up soon. What's the process for getting http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html changed, since at this point there's been more talking about it than the time it would actually have taken to fix. > > yet the examples and the lift book (and to a > > certain extent the design of lift itself) encourage putting markup in > > snippet code. Show people how to do it the right way. > > Disagree. The archetypes use bind these days so im not sure how we are > promoting use of HTML literals. Personally, I always always use bind. > > Cheeers, Tim http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book class HelloWorld { def howdy: NodeSeq = <span>Welcome to helloworld at {new java.util.Date}</span> } As you say, the current archetypes use bind, but how is a newcomer even going to find those when the most obvious references on the homepage are all to 1.0 era code? The first time I looked at lift, I read the first couple of chapters of the lift book and disregarded it for exactly this reason. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
