Hi Stefan, It's sad you had issues. Whether you use it or not is your choice. If you think there are more disadvantages than advantages, then don't use it! However, I have yet to find a single case where this is true.
AFAIAC, I have been using it in production for the past 2 years without any problem (on projects with 70+ developers and with 300+ maven projects). This is simply to tell you there is hope and that it can work... :-) Thanks -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Guðlaugur Stefán Egilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 September 2003 12:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Usability issues & general ranting > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all > > I've been trying to get Maven to work with my project. I've > spent about a day on that, with very little to show. > > First I'd like to say that I think it’s an extremely bad decision > not to support CVS libraries (that is, the classic lib > directory that typically contains the jars you are dependent > on). Well, actually it is supported to some degree, but > that support is similar to the support a rope gives a hanged > man, which is not very desirable :-) I think the repository idea > is excellent, but if you are going to establish a broad user > base such as ant has, you have to support the way people are > working now. A no. 1 requirement for Maven should be that it > runs without hiccups on a standard project with a source directory, > a test-source directory and a lib directory, preferably without > any configuration whatsoever. > > To give you some idea of the problems I've been encountering, then > it was first of all to get the thing to compile my source using > "maven jar". > I eventually gave up on using lib and jar overrides, and generated a > local repository out of my library using a batch file. > > At that point, unit tests wouldn't run, with a ClassNotFoundException > on JUnitTestRunner. If I removed the test clause from the project > descriptor, a NullPointerException occurred!?! I then found that > it is necessary to set a property to skip the tests (this is bad > design > imho, it should be enough to remove the test clause from the project > descriptor). At this point, Maven finally gave me a jar. > > Then I tried to generate the web site this morning, which gives me > a InvocationTargetException when running the maven-changelog-plugin. > > Btw, I re-enabled the tests this morning, at which time they ran > (why is very mysterious to me), but ended with an > EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (that probably warrants a bug report to > Sun). > It's a test suite that runs fine under Ant and IntelliJ. > > I've basically given up on Maven for the time being. My impression > of the state of the project is that it should not be in beta, the > quality is more like that of an alpha-status project. > > With regards > > Guðlaugur Stefán Egilsson > Dimon Software > http://www.dimonsoftware.com > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.1.1 > > iQA/AwUBP18Bw0JoRUzTQtNXEQJs9wCglRkUdQhjkGRNtGlhD6Ryau2aArAAoN0Y > u5PnlwNgvjrFygdEQEolbqt9 > =t60v > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
