I was always asking myself what is so special about projects like Lucene, Hadoop (and possibly Mahout?) that maven can not be used as a project management tool for them. I haven't heard an answer until these days (... "these projects are complex" is not an answer for me).
Lukas On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:05 AM, pi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/