On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Chris Chabot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Vincent Siveton > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Using Maven will be more platform independent, >> > > > Ps, any claims that 'get root access', 'install java', 'make java work', > 'install maven', 'learn how to use maven commands' is more platform > independent then /bin/sh, should probably re-evaluate his position and hop > on the *nix bandwagon as many generations before us have done :)
I agree. Honestly, I don't even like using maven for java work, and expecting PHP developers and users to understand maven is a bad idea. 'Platform independence' is a myth. Maven relies on java and as such it is inherently stuck with java's own lack of platform independence. I can run chris's script just fine on an old FreeBSD 4 system, and there isn't a JVM new enough to run maven available for it. I have a shared host (RHEL) that can run the same shell script but can't even install java. Just because something happens to work on a handful of popular operating systems does not make it 'platform independent',
