I feel like something that needs to be better explained is that Maven is Not Ant.. I think people see Maven, like how easy all the plugins make it to tie in really intestesting reporting etc.. But, what they don't realize is that part of what makes all the various plugins play nice with each other is that there is a real structure to how things go together.
That means that maven is more then just a collections of plugins. It is also all the interdendencies between the various plugins. Which is why when you run war:webapp, all your unit tests are run. The freedom to do everything by hand that is present in Ant is not present in Maven. But, at least for many of my projects, I don't want that freedom.. I would rather have an easy to setup, stable, well understood build system with lots of reporting versus something that can be everything to everybody, but requires lots of knowledge of the build system internals.. Where (I feel) that Ant shines is when you are doing something very complex, very custom, and you want to do it your way, not any other way. Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Berin Loritsch > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: More constructive criticism > > > With ANT 1.6 on the horrizon, it appears that there are some > new issues > to worry about. For instance, the general impression that > Maven is good > to you if you are good to Maven: > > http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/kevin/archives/2003/09/21/ind > ex.shtml#000168 > > My question comes in this form: How much difference is there between > a Maven 1.0 and the next generation Maven that fixes a bunch > of the issues > we already have? > > I mean, will the existing plugins work? Is the repository compatible? > > If so, then I highly recommend the NG Maven sooner than > later. If not, > what can be done to make the plugins compatible? What work > needs to be > done in that respect? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
