OT: Usage of language-specific package managers (was: Re: Prefered build system)

2012-03-23 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 08:06:25AM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: > On 3/23/12 6:47 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have been assigned to a legacy Java project, which uses several messed > >up Ant buildfiles. I'm going to replace or clean up the build system as > >part of project mai

Re: Prefered build system

2012-03-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 March 2012 12:06, Barry Hawkins wrote: > Maven is pretty handy when you lay out your project using the conventions > that Maven chooses, but getting used to Maven's Build Lifecycle[0] is often > an adjustment. I often prefer Ant + Ivy, mostly because Ant is so > straightforward and Ivy give

Re: Prefered build system

2012-03-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On 3/23/12 6:47 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi, I have been assigned to a legacy Java project, which uses several messed up Ant buildfiles. I'm going to replace or clean up the build system as part of project maintainance. I read that Maven (similar to other language-specific package mana

Re: Prefered build system

2012-03-23 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 23/03/2012 11:47, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi, I have been assigned to a legacy Java project, which uses several messed up Ant buildfiles. I'm going to replace or clean up the build system as part of project maintainance. I read that Maven (similar to other language-specific package man

Prefered build system

2012-03-23 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi, I have been assigned to a legacy Java project, which uses several messed up Ant buildfiles. I'm going to replace or clean up the build system as part of project maintainance. I read that Maven (similar to other language-specific package management software) has been a problem for Debian for a