It's overly advertised extended behaviour of ant to resolve dependencies. Farrukh
On 2011-01-15, at 5:27 PM, Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: > >> On 15/01/2011, at 2:12 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: >> >>> I'm all for Q's approach, too. For me, Ivy is the part of Maven that isn't >>> so bad. You get the dependency management without all the other stuff on >>> top. >> >> And, of course, you can interpret 'all the other stuff on top' in one of two >> ways: >> a) negatively, which seems to be the way this particular community keeps the >> myth going that it'll be too much pain. (Perhaps certain people have a >> hang-over from maven 1?). >> b) positively, as meaning all the additional benefits maven provides and >> with less pain overall. >> >> I found the latter to be true. :) Having everything is configured in your >> pom file(s) and thus in version control (rather than requiring external >> configs on differing environments), dependency management, proper build >> lifecycles (with testing, integration testing etc), convention over >> configuration, lots of handy plugins easily adapted. It's definitely worth a >> serious look. >> >> with regards, >> - >> >> Lachlan Deck > > If I had to describe Jenkins(Hudson) in a sentence, I would say: A webapp for > automating builds that is similar to Apple's Automator. > > Can a Maven fan concisely describe Maven in something the size of a tweet so > that I might understand why I would want to use it? For me, the problem > isn't a negative perception.... I simply have no idea what Maven does or why > I would want to use it. > > Thanks, > > Ramsey > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/farrukh.ijaz%40fuegodigitalmedia.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
