On 9/11/07, Konstantin Ignatyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are absolutely correct: lots of issues with Maven all the time and it > would be really beneficial if various "Lets Get Started" tutorials do not > rely on that and rely on Ant only to do everything they need to do. > > Ideally all the libraries will come with it too, and if download size is too > big then ant's get command is here to resque. > > It is less sexy than transitive dependencies resolution etc. But it is near > bulletproof and it is that doctor is ordered for tutorials. Maven is > unstable because of widespread practice of using version ranges for > dependencies and plugins and it makes build unrepeatable because build > depends on server side. There are pro and contra arguments of course but I > think that for Tutorials there are no pro-s in Maven.
I think we have enough users by now who support this view. The next big question is, who wants to contribute? Wicket-stuff is a great place to put it in first (we can move adopt it as a core project once we all agree). Eelco --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
