Maven is quite a treat. A lot of people are using it these days and has great advantages. I am not a maven expert by any means, but I can tell you that the nicest thing about it is that you describe a project and it's dependanices in an xml file so that when you build it all the dependancies are pulled from your nexus repo, which is just a smart-ish binary repo. Also, when your project builds successfully your artifacts can be stored in your repo as snapshots so that others can use them.
The main idea of maven is that when a developer pulls the source there's no guesswork as to how to build and deploy the project, it's all done with maven. In doing so, the project has to adhere to certain standards, namely how the files and folders are laid out which is defined in a maven archetype and can even be changed if you want. This is why I asked if there was some sort of 'public' repo we could use, since we're an open source project, because to take full advantage of maven one needs a nexus repo, and I don't have one handy :) On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected]>wrote: > I have no experience with Maven or Ant. Are there any significant > advantages in using Maven? Ant sort of integrated with Netbeans at the > moment ... > > If there are none, I think I agree with what Jason (nocans) says :-) > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Aside from the work of rearranging files and folders to match an > archetype, > > I don't think it would be of a great benefit unless the project had its > own > > nexus server. > > Is there some sort of free nexus server resource for open source projects > ? > > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Julien Nicoulaud > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> Just wanted to know, are you interested in Maven-inizing the project ? I > >> can do this. > >> Cheers, > >> Julien > >> -- > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > >
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