Of course, you could say that about Gradle, too. And ant now does have the ability to use those dependency features.
I went through this when creating my video course (not in the sig because this is work email). It’s not clear to me that you can make a one sentence description that will provide sufficiently useful information unless something like: "Maven is a build tool which consumes and produces artifacts managed in a repository." But that is not going to help people coming new to the project. I think I am missing the motivation here.Is the target for this description people deciding whether to try Maven? People trying to learn how to use it? On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Lyons, Roy <roy.ly...@cmegroup.com> wrote: > on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/New+Main+Site it says: > > We need a short and snappy description of what Maven is: > > "Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool." > > Is just not an easy to understand description of what Maven is. > > > > > I would like to submit my short description for review. > > "Apache Maven is a convention-over-configuration build tool which has great > dependency management features." > > I know that it does more than that - but I feel that at its core, this is > what it really is. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
