A big advantage of Maven is that all the major Java editors all allow you to open a project by opening a POM file. All resources, paths, etc. are immediately configured. This is a big plus for people who want to explore the code and possibly contribute. Dependency management is also much more straightforward using Maven.
Patrick On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Sim IJskes - QCG <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/26/2010 03:13 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Here we have a minor dilemma. I might count as a qualified person, but >> I'm a bit swamped and there is some feeling that mentoring and >> developering should be distinct. Maybe I'll have a look and see what I >> see. > > I'm not directly in favor of a maven build procedure. I don't have a problem > with ant based build scripts. I love them! > > I dont mind an experiment in a skunk branch, where we prove we can create > repeatable builds, complete build results for src/doc/bin, usable without > maven and show that this repeatability is easily maintained (i mean on the > human/procedure side).
