Sorry it was the M2 documentation in general that I find shallow, I know
that the book only really covers M1.
I have found that the documentation on the maven website only ever
covers the very simplest scenarios and trying to do anything more
complex requires a trawl of google and this list. The M1 documentation
is, at present, much more thorough and so I would think is probably
still a safer bet for new maven users.
Vincent Massol wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: mercredi 4 janvier 2006 09:56
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: M1 or M2?
Hi Vincent,
Im another happy owner of your first book but have found the maven2
documentation a little shallow.
The O'Reilly book I wrote was on m1 so no wonder you found it shallow on m2!
We've still tried to include some tips for making it easier to migrate to m2
later on and it does describe some common concepts but it's really meant for
m1 users.
Will you announcing the new release on here when it becomes available.
Yes.
Thanks
-Vincent
Vincent Massol wrote:
Thanks Babak. WRT m2 documentation it's already better than m1. However
we're also writing a m2 book. It'll be made available online. We should
have
a first release of it in Q1 2006.
WRT migrating to m2 yes it's easy to do that from m1 provided you follow
the
best practices like having a minimal maven.xml file... The hard part is
moving from Ant to Maven because you need to restructure your directory
structure into small subprojects. But if you're on m1 it means you've
already done that and this doesn't change when you move to m2.
-Vincent
-----Original Message-----
From: Babak Farhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: mercredi 4 janvier 2006 07:16
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: M1 or M2?
Thanks for encouraging Maven2!
I must say, though, that you didn't address my "Will I suffer?" question
:-)
I just checked out *Maven: A Dev's Notebook* which is slightly dated
and based on Maven1. Nice, fairly well-organized, spoon-fed info in
that book which I hope is more or less applicable to Maven2, as well.
Reading some of the user feedback on reviews about Maven2 (e.g. see
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2005/jw-1205-maven-p3.html )
I thought it might be wiser if I first learnt Maven1.
.. If you want to suffer then
delve into writing Jelly plugins in Maven1. ;) Maven2 is a beautiful
thing...
I'm sure it's beautiful. Really! I'm hoping not to need to write any
plugins, though. I'm not a build engineer: I'll be using Maven mostly
because it makes developing apps easier...
So for now, as a newbie, I'll stick to Maven1 until there is better
documentation out there for Maven2. I *did* try Maven2 along w/ its
documentation, but for now, here's my advice to other newcomers:
The path to m2 is through m1.
Or ye shall suffer needlessly, as I have... :-)
If I follow the *best practices*, it seems, I should be able to
migrate relatively painlessly to M2.
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