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> From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Vince,
Thanks for the reply!
> The Maven philosophy is to have a single source tree per project. If you
> need several then simply split into several projects. Creating a project
> in Maven simply consists in creating a project.xml file.
There's no escaping that Maven enforces its philosophy on my team's project
unnecessarily (it seems to me).
It's nice that project's can inherit, which should ameliorate the change in
perspective for the team as to what constitutes a "project." We already
have at least 3 different uses of "project" in our current tool set of
Eclipse, ClearCase and management's use(s) (along which we have organized
code in ClearCase UCM). It may not be that big of a deal, although we don't
want too many Eclipse projects, and this is going to encourage two
everywhere we had one before.
Another question: if you have a dependency on a jar that doesn't have a neat
external place to get it, and you want to pick up that jar from the local
file system, what do you do? I manually created the necessary directory
structure under maven-1.0-beta-9\repository to make like it had been
downloaded. Is there another way? I think it would be cool to just say:
<dependency>
<id>myjar</id>
<uri>./lib</uri>
</dependency>
Where it defaults to looking in ./lib for myjar.jar (no version, but version
could be optionally specified), or the URI could specify the protocol like
file:./lib, or be a variable like ${maven.repo.local}. Or again, an
optional attribute on the dependency, like <dependency repository="local"/>.
Current common solution (in mail archives) is to set maven.repo.remote to a
local repository (either local file system or an internal server). This is
also a cool idea. A local repository (supplemental to ibiblio) on our own
server seems like a cool idea.
Anyway, Maven is really cool, as I am getting sick of writing the same build
files again and again. I hope I can convince some other folks on the team
to buy into it.
Thank you,
Scott Stirling
Framingham, MA
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