Threatening to fork does not promote a sense of collaboration. Again - we like Ant and it suits our needs. Moving to Maven would be a major disruption that is simply not justified.
On May 4, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Patrick Shea wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
