Dalibor Topic wrote: > I'm not arguing that it doesn't make sense in *all* contexts, I'm > arguing that it's not a *silver bullet* in all contexts.
Who told you that Maven is a silver bullet in all contexts? > My impression > is that there is a lot of (rightful! it's a cool piece of software) > excitement, but little discussion of limitations of the new idea, so I'm > playing an advocatus diaboli in this case ;) ... using massive amounts of bandwidth, and pissing the hell out of certain people. My advice is that you should start a project concerned with running Java software using libraries managed with platform specifc package managers , state your cause there, and go on discussing this with the people that are interested. What you are doing now is an abuse of Maven mailing list IMO. R. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
