Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Fox
> Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if > Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get > accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people are far slowest to > change than in OpenSource project team). > > Please, please don't mess every

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
So I agree that it is a valid concern, and there needs to be a canonical format (which will probably be XML) which all artifacts are saved as - but in my source tree, it should be entirely possible to have an alternate way to specify, since often I've found that XML- hatred is a barrier to M

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-04, at 10:59 PM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So I agree that it is a valid concern, and there needs to be a canonical format (which will probably be XML) which all artifacts are saved as - but in my source tree, it should be entirely possible to have an alternate way to speci

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
Who said anything about a reasonable person? :) I don't have such a hatred - I'm quite used to it, but it has come up in nearly every client in the last 3 years - not as a final or deal-breaking barrier to adoption, but a barrier nonetheless. I'm happy to support it - I just need a seam or

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
much dismissed them as I like using XML myself. Jason From: Christian Edward Gruber [christianedwardgru...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Who said anything about a reaso

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Benedict
ike using XML myself. > > Jason > > From: Christian Edward Gruber [christianedwardgru...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x > > Who said anything abo

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
tian Edward Gruber [christianedwardgru...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Who said anything about a reasonable person? :) I don't have such a hatred - I'm quite used to it, but it has come up in nearly every

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
From: paulus.benedic...@gmail.com [paulus.benedic...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Benedict [pbened...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:05 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x Yes, the XML is verbose, and tooling helps but I think most people write it

RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Chaffee
jason.chaf...@zilliontv.tv] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:27 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x I like the idea of having some things as attributes. See the following links on information on when to use attributes and when to use elements. http://w

Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Julien HENRY
. Regards, Julien - Message d'origine > De : Jason Chaffee > À : Maven Developers List > Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s > Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x > > FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in >

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Brett Porter
On 05/09/2009, at 6:25 AM, Brian Fox wrote: Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people are far slowest to change than in OpenSource project

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Ralph Goers
On Sep 7, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Brett Porter wrote: On 05/09/2009, at 6:25 AM, Brian Fox wrote: Just my 2 cents as a Maven evangelist in a big private company. Even if Maven is around for years now, basic endusers just start to get accustomed to pom.xml and Maven philosophy (really! people are

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: At one point the pom was going to be "redone" so that it wasn't going to be completely compatible. Later, I think the decision was made to keep it compatible. At one point there was support for having different pom formats but I'm not really su

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 4:12 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: At one point the pom was going to be "redone" so that it wasn't going to be completely compatible. Later, I think the decision was made to keep it compatible. At one point there was sup

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of some mechanism) not have to do crazy wrappers. You said these extension points would be there, so I'm happy. (do note the smiley) 2. Who's

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Stephen Connolly
For that to work you'd basically need to be able to round-trip between the yaml format and the xml format... otherwise the tooling in IDEs and in plugins like versions-maven-plugin, maven-release-plugin, etc will make changes and very soon the yaml file is just the seed file and bares no resemblan

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 9:49 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of some mechanism) not have to do crazy wrappers. You said these extension points wo

Re: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
Ok. Sounds workable. Christian. On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:00 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 2009-09-08, at 9:49 AM, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: So - 2 points. 1. Who's saying you have to actually have YAML poms IN the maven project - as long as I can find a way to (through autodiscovery of

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Stephen Connolly
nsider a "big" change for endusers. Still my 2 cents. Regards, Julien - Message d'origine De : Jason Chaffee À : Maven Developers List Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason van Zyl
ts. Regards, Julien - Message d'origine De : Jason Chaffee À : Maven Developers List Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in it's config XML. It w

RE: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason Chaffee
ly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the curr

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-05 Thread Jason van Zyl
re supports the ability for someone to do it at their own risk. kind regards, Jason From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Stephen Connolly
De : Jason Chaffee À : Maven Developers List Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Septembre 2009, 1h00mn 02s Objet : RE: Re : non-xml poms in 3.x FYI, I know that in the past Resin supported both Elements and attributes in it's config XML. It was really neat. If you preferred one over the

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Jason Chaffee
he ability for someone to do it at their own >> risk. >> >> >> kind regards, >> >> Jason >> >> >> >> From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 200

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-06 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
om: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
e, but rather the architecture supports the ability for someone to do it at their own risk. kind regards, Jason From: Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Dev

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Edward Gruber
m] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have the current XML format. adding more formats m

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason Chaffee
good clean API's, then power users can >>>>> basically do whatever they want easily. Therefore, you wouldn't >>>>> be >>>>> directly supporting this feature...but by creating a clean >>>>> injectable architecture you would support w

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
Stephen Connolly [stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:45 AM To: Maven Developers List Cc: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x personally, given the fun with rewriting XML at the moment, (see versions maven plugin) I would prefer to just have th

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Jason Chaffee
to do it at their >>>>>>> own >>>>>>> risk. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> kind regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>&

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-07 Thread Brett Porter
On 08/09/2009, at 8:06 AM, Jason Chaffee wrote: I understand that you probably don't want to commit to a date or cause undue expectations from anyone on this list, so let me ask it in a slight differently way. Do you think it "might" be possible that we see a beta 3.x in 2009? One reason I ask

Re: Re : Re : non-xml poms in 3.x

2009-09-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 2009-09-08, at 3:11 AM, Brett Porter wrote: On 08/09/2009, at 8:06 AM, Jason Chaffee wrote: I understand that you probably don't want to commit to a date or cause undue expectations from anyone on this list, so let me ask it in a slight differently way. Do you think it "might" be possib