On what I hope is a lighter note...I recall being in a session at a JavaOne years ago when a presenter asked if we knew the difference between Ant and Maven.
The answer was "the guy who created Ant apologized". (Recall that maven was a bit slow in the early days when it was just getting popular.) I thought it was as funny as it was intended at the time (and I still do). It also reminds me of 1. it used to be called JavaOne and 2. I do miss in-person conferences a bit. FWIW, I don't hate Ant, Maven, or Gradle (but I have used Maven more than the other two.) Certainly, ant was very popular but moving to maven (or gradle) can certainly be done. Was hoping a bit of levity/good memories might be appreciated. :) Happy coding. On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:38 PM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Apr 20, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Lisa Ruby <lbru...@protonmail.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > > For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may seem > simple and straightforward, but for those of us who haven't it's not. I've > struggled to try and understand it and figure out how to use it for my > software project and gave up. And it's a huge amount of overhead, extra > disk space usage, and more bits and pieces to keep track of that isn't > justifiable for small simple projects. ANT works just fine for me, and I > will keep using it for as long as I possibly can. I need to focus my time > on getting my software out, not on the tools I have to use to do it. > > > > Lisa > > It is precisely because you want to focus on getting your software out > that you *need* to learn the modern tools for doing so. > > Your Gradle project file could literally be one line, depending on your > needs. > > Maven is certainly more verbose (My preference is Gradle), but the project > setup is still usually a single command that will write a basic pom.xml > file for you. > > Either of those tools is a step up. Sticking your head in the sand and > pretending you can stick with Ant forever is not the way to go. > > I get that “it works for you now”. But this discussion is a perfect > example of how that will change on you. > > Cheers, > > Scott > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > -- Carl J. Mosca
