"Michal Maczka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/09/2003 11:55:43 PM:

> > There is some truth here. However, an open-source project's
> > success is just as much judged by its audience as any other
> > project. And a top level apache project would have more
> > ambition than this I thought.
> 
> Yeah are right. "Our vision" should be dropped and we should implement
> every single stupid feature then is requested and do this even if those
> features are in mutual contradiction. And the most frequent request is:
> "you guys should be like ant". This is not hard thing to do. We will
> simply remove files from our CVS repository and import files from Ant
> repository replacing every occurrence of word "ant" with "maven". If
> this is what will make people happy we should listen to them! Don't we?

Nope, we have way more vision than that. Maven is not about complete 
freedom, it's about trying to do things the right way, and making *that* 
easier.

Make the right way easy, make the wrong way hard.

But, in all honesty, if we had software without bugs, I'd be stunned.
--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/




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