On 9/27/07, Lally Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On 9/27/07, Alan D. Salewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not suggesting that the maven 2.x 'install' build life cycle phase > > be renamed at this point because maven is well-enough established that > > doing so would be needlessly disruptive. But, thinking back to my > > pre-maven-lobotomy days, it would have been nice if it did not violate > > the principle of least surprise on this point. To the extent possible, > > new approaches and new tools should leverage users' existing experience > > as much as possible. > > Some aliases could be useful. Just have an alias called 'available' > that maven translates to 'install'. > > Similarly, a command line option -t which translates to > -Dmaven.test.skip=true :-)
Oh, I've got boatloads of aliases and wrapper scripts for maven (and most other tools that have non-trivial invocation variations that I use frequently, for that matter). I was just using the overloaded meaning of 'install' as an example of something that causes a needless impedence mismatch for new maven users that are familiar with other widely used tools. -Al P.S. Since I couldn't, in good conscience, keep contributing to marginally topical branches of this thread without actually contributing "real" content, I've added a new "Maven for Make and GNU Autotools" users section to the "Getting Started with Maven" wiki page: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Getting+Started+with+Maven#GettingStartedwithMaven-MavenforMakeandGNUAutotoolsusers -- :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Alan D. Salewski Software Developer Health Market Science, Inc. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]