I personally find Maven to be a bit cumbersome - but in any case, Ant is 
appropriate for our needs and works well, so there's no compelling reason to 
switch. And don't forget that Ant is an Apache project too.  :-)

On May 4, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Patrick Shea wrote:

> Oh boy... I had the same kind of reactions when I tried to introduce ant 10 
> years ago...
> 
> I don't know of any serious project today not using maven.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Christopher Brind" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 6:17pm
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Mavenization of pivot?
> 
> Maven is the marmite of the software world. :)
> 
> (I'm not a fan either, to be honest.)
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 May 2010 23:14, Dirk Moebius <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thank god - I hate maven.
>> 
>> 
>> "Greg Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> No plans to switch to Maven.
>>> 
>>> On May 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Patrick Shea wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is there any plan to get rid of ant and switch completely to maven? It
>> would be nice to be able to compile easily, produce javadocs and sources
>> jar's.
>>>> 
>>>> Patrick
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> 

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