Hi, I hope my choice of words didn't cause some unintentional conclusions. :-) By insidious, I mean the problem was difficult for me to track down--although now that I make use of the Eclipse dependency hierarchy view, I can see which transitive dependencies are overriding each other--so it's not a big problem for me anymore.
I often have to explain our use of Maven to people working on our project (who are not that adept at Maven): We senior developers have sunk a considerable part of our careers fighting and wooing Maven to do our wishes--it's like a bad relationship you can't get out of. Some of us are so out of patience with Maven that we don't want to talk about it--just google it they'll say. I'm stuck with Maven on our current project, because moving to something like Gradle, although better, would cause people's heads to explode. And I don't want to clean up that mess. With regards to your other comments, I think you might get higher quality venting of your frustrations on a site like http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ The subscribers to of this list prefer to stay on Tapestry topics, and I've admittedly strayed from that course here. <t:inline type="Apology" context="mine"/> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jon Williams <williams.jonat...@gmail.com>wrote: > Seeing as this thread is way off topic already... > > Software is writing. Any one with 5 or 6 years of basic schooling can > right. Like anything, the more you right, the better you get. It's stupid > to state that American's are better writers than the rest of the world. > There's no evidence of that. > Also, next time, take a look around a typical American code shop, many > "American" software writers are off the boat immigrants. >
