>>>>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>>>> writes:
> What do colon (:) and at (@) signs mean? What is "parent" or "mod"? > What are "profiles" in Maven options? None of this is explained, so > it's difficult to start using this if someone has no experience with > Maven. I've always felt that if things need to get that complicated, you're better off just being explicit and just using the non-declarative way of doing things. So much is hidden in the new system and, I guess, what you would do explicitly gets compressed into some line noise BuildOption: lines. Maybe it makes much more sense if you already know Maven; I have a feeling that each of those build options just encodes something which packagers already have to pass some other way. If we compress too much and hide things behind super-magical options, we will lose existing specs as examples to follow for those who don't have maximum knowledge. But having thousands of identical packages with piles of identical boilerplate is also not really desirable, so the difficulty comes in finding the balance, and making sure the "old" way of doing things stays supported and well-documented. - J< -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
