That depends. If you want to do something very different from the default model maven provides, it could be very painful sometimes. Maven is more like a coffee machine that you push a button and it just works. You can't configure much.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had the chance to use a maven centric build just lately from the > IntelliJ point of view and found it painless to keep the pom as the master > structure. IntelliJ can even sync back to the pom. > > I don't think that using ant from maven would be as useful as switching > over > entirely to maven. > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Karl Wettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've managed to keep the POMs in sync locally at least up until a month > > ago. Hopefully it's not too much of a hassle to update them. It was > mostly > > trouble with nested deps that needed to be excluded. Also, > core/src/examples > > needs to be moved to a new maven module in order to work and that will > > require touching the ant build. > > > > Sorry for my recent inactivity and short communication the last weeks! > Been > > busy catching the sun, changing country and moving to a new apartment. > Have > > a whole bunch of halfbaked patches and comments here. Please allow a few > > days for me to sync with trunk and catch up with discussions on the fora. > > > > > > karl > > > > > > 5 aug 2008 kl. 04.06 skrev Sean Owen: > > > > > > That's nice -- how about targets that need more customized scripting? > >> I suppose we can keep those separate, and connect them to the > >> auto-generated build file. At least then build logic is not > >> duplicated. Sounds good? > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:56 PM, pi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> You can generate ant build file/intelliJ project file/Eclipse project > >>> file > >>> from Maven poms. One way is to too keep maven as your master so you > don't > >>> have to maintain both. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sean Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> I don't know, I have not found a great solution for this. I don't use > >>>> Maven myself but am not against learning how to use it effectively. > >>>> Part of that is sorting out how to keep it in sync with Ant build > >>>> scripts. We could delegate all building to Ant. Perhaps that's the > >>>> easiest way. > >>>> > >>>> Anyone know enough about Maven to understand best practices? I assume > >>>> some does or else we wouldn't be bothering with it. > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> So, what's are plan for the Maven poms? How do we intend to keep > them > >>>>> in > >>>>> sync such that they are actually useful for those who want to use > Maven > >>>>> > >>>> (not > >>>> > >>>>> me, but others...)? > >>>>> > >>>>> -Grant > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > > > > > -- > ted >
