I'd be interested in seeing the ivy+ant solution. We use maven2 at work and there are obvious pros and cons. With clojure, part of the pain is initial setup and config. Maven2/ant+ivy might really help that. Post when you get a chance...am very interested.
Thanks, jason On Apr 2, 8:56 pm, dysinger <dysin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maven2 is atrocious for big Java projects. Lots of people have had > the same experience you mentioned. In fact the first few lines of the > readme on my clojure pom project on github says "Dont run away with > your hair on fire" :) Give it a try. It is really simple. > > I think I'll give Ant + Ivy another run tonight. I truly am after the > best KISS dependency/package management solution and not trying to > push maven. > > On Apr 2, 3:10 pm, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:39 AM, dysinger <dysin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The Java world for good or bad has rallied > > > around maven repos. There are 10s of thousands of libs "up in there". > > > While there are lots of Java / Maven users, there are also a lot who *don't* > > use it, and indeed many who actively avoid stuff that is locked in to Maven > > and it's associated complexity. It's popular, yes, but I'd debate that the > > Java world has "rallied around" maven... > > > My workplace (200-ish developers) is mostly Java based, and we used to use > > Maven 1 for a few core projects, went through some pain trying to move them > > to Maven 2, gave up, and have been quite happy since then working with Ivy > > and Ant. > > > I'm sure maven has a lot of benefits in many workplaces, and I'm sure it's > > more stable and reliable than it was when Maven 2 was brand new :-} But > > personally, I still get post-traumatic flashbacks whenever I see the words > > "simple" and "maven" in the same sentence :) > > > - Korny > > > -- > > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > > isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
