On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Q wrote:
On 11/06/2008, at 8:20 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
Am 11.06.2008 um 11:59 schrieb Q:
intuitive configurability as ant.
Uh. You're kidding, right? Right??
Probably not the best phrasing. By that I meant that ant is not
magic, you want it to do anything, it has to go into your build
config. If something is not in your build config, it's not going to
magically happen. This behaviour is, predictable, repeatable and
deterministic, making the scope of ant's "configurability" pretty
intuitive, writing that "configuration" is another story.
Maven on the other hand has magic, externally dependent plugins and
implicit behaviours that can change without warning over time if
you aren't careful about your dependency management, so you may not
be able to tell what your build is going to do just by looking at
the config. If your build used to work, and breaks later on, it
might have nothing to do with your build configuration and instead
be the result of some external dependency change outside your
control, making it potentially very difficult to resolve. This is
not what I would call intuitive configurability.
I have to confess, that REALLY does not sound like something I would
want to add to my build process. What do all of these potential
problems buy you?
Chuck
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