“but again, i have serious questions about maven in general.”

Maybe you just need to drink the Maven Koolaid.  Unless they have something 
stronger… ;-)

Karl


From: ext Robert Muir [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: discussion about release frequency.


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Uwe Schindler 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If somebody reorders the directory structure, I will shout “revert revert 
revert” ☺

I wouldn't shout "revert revert revert" if by renaming stuff from src/java to 
src/main/java etc, Grant's idea would work, in that we still use ant for our 
build, but we have some way to automagically generate IDE configuration files 
for eclipse, idea, netbeans, emacs, whatever, via some maven tool.

If this was the benefit, and the tradeoff being more difficult merging, and 
having to ignore some path segments on existing patches, I might consider it 
worth the cost.

but again, i have serious questions about maven in general. for example, what 
if I wanted to add/modify a contrib that depends on a library that is not 
"mavenized"?   Is it my responsibility to "mavenize" that dependency, too? Does 
it make the release artifact invalid? is it a valid reason against adding that 
contrib, since its dependencies are not all mavenized?

the fact that maven acts like a computer virus, but requires special things of 
its hosts, means that i am pretty hesitant to vote for "full support of it" 
without knowing exactly what the tradeoffs are.

--
Robert Muir
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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