> I will say this once and only once, if you want to migrate to a maven based > build, I could help... However I do not want to mix issues, I'm quite > prepared to work with the current build system, there is a community of > developers here that seem happy with the existing build system, they are the > ones doing the work, whatever they prefer goes... I just want to get the > artifacts into central
Speaking only from the point of view of a user (application developer), I think a major plus is coming from that end. Being able to have your standard maven project just pull in dependencies rather than having to work around infrastructure and make special exceptions to get cassandra client X and specific special version of thrift Y is extremely nice. (I'd personally love a pom.xml for cassandra itself too, if only to avoid having to configure IDE:s manually. I may be interested in helping out trying to maintain one, but I'm not sure I have sufficient maven fu yet to be effective (but I'm getting there).) Regardless, the Riptano maven repository is greatly appreciated as it appears already. -- / Peter Schuller
