Hmm, That's what I did, offer to collaborate... But was just said thanks but no 
thanks.

FYI It took me 30 minutes to mavenize the pivot project and was able to produce 
jar's, javadocs and sources. But of course everybody hate's maven...

Patrick





-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Brown" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 7:46pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mavenization of pivot?

We understand the benefits as they apply to other projects. We just don't feel 
that they apply here.

Sorry to hear that you would prefer to fork rather than collaborate, but that 
option is of course available to you.


On May 4, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Patrick Shea wrote:

> Oh well, I understand, most projects I propose maven are not mature enough to 
> understand the benefits (not your fault, it's that way)
> 
> I guess my only choice is to fork the project...
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Greg Brown" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 7:17pm
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Mavenization of pivot?
> 
> 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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