See below for my comments. -Dave
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:50 PM, scabbage <guans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Our group does release engineering and we have a Jave project that gets > build > every night. Our java source code and lib jars are checked into CVS. Every > night we do a sync and build. As a Java developer, I have a hard time > managing/upgrading my Java libs. In the process of switching to Maven, I > have to convince my team that Maven is the right tool to use. But many > concerns have been raised. For example: > > - What if the central repo goes down? We'll end up with broken builds and > the QEs will go crazy at us! [dh] Not likely. We use the open source Artifactory maven proxy so you will only ever download something once. Not much of a concern, now its your job to keep your server up. > > - Ok, so we can have proxies, but then we have to maintain them. Lots of > work. [dh] No, very little work. Set it up and is very little maintenance. You can even configure it to create exports of all artifacts for backup. > > - Not checked into CVS??? That's not good. Not comfortable without having a > complete set of artifacts in a SAFE place. Not comfortable! [dh] Artifactory can be just as safe as CVS. > > - Your pom.xml only shows those dependencies your project is directed > dependent upon. Fine. But what about all other dependencies that your > dependencies depend upon? Know who they, get them and put in CVS!! [dh] They are all in your proxy as well as developer repos, not to worry. > > > Not sure if any of you have encountered these challenges. Please give me > some suggestions. [dh] These are the easy problems. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Need-to-convince-my-manager-to-switch-to-maven-tp23876576p23876576.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
