Re: Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-02 Thread Dan Tran
Please discard my last comment, wrong topic. -D On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dan Tran wrote: > If i have to repeatedly doing the same thing every day maven > plugin is a way to go since I can run it any where i like as long as > maven installed and point to our central maven repo. > > >

Re: Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-02 Thread Oliver B. Fischer
. The solution combines the adavantages of Ant and Maven and turned out to be very flexible. But you must know Ant before. Bye Oliver Am 02.03.2012 04:32, schrieb Eric Kolotyluk: Maybe this is too weird, but Has anyone ever used Maven as an installation tool? I've been thinking using Mav

Re: Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-02 Thread Dan Tran
If i have to repeatedly doing the same thing every day maven plugin is a way to go since I can run it any where i like as long as maven installed and point to our central maven repo. -D On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Anders Hammar wrote: >> Sonatype do some black magic for provision devel

Re: Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-01 Thread Anders Hammar
> Sonatype do some black magic for provision developer desktops, check > their website. > There was a demo I saw that pulled down your Eclipse binaries and > installing plugins and did some configuration stuff. > I believe that the bundling of the artifacts for provisioning live in > Nexus - not su

Re: Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-01 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Eric Kolotyluk wrote: > Maybe this is too weird, but > > Has anyone ever used Maven as an installation tool? > > I've been thinking using Maven as a way to install and update software, and > before I actually go and experiment with the idea I

Maven as an installation tool

2012-03-01 Thread Eric Kolotyluk
Maybe this is too weird, but Has anyone ever used Maven as an installation tool? I've been thinking using Maven as a way to install and update software, and before I actually go and experiment with the idea I was wondering if other people have already thought of this. The idea would be