On May 18, 2007, at 5:31 AM, Q wrote:
> Ok, I understand how ant plays with woproject, wolips and WO
> development in general, but I have not yet explored the utility of
> using maven in any depth, but I feel that from what I have heard
> about it in the past, it's something I should at least explore to
> some degree.
>
> I have briefly looked at the maven documentation, and the woproject
> maven documentation, and they cover HOW to use maven, and set it
> up, but one thing that is not immediately clear to someone who is
> not yet familiar with maven, is WHY I should consider using maven
> at all? It's fine to say maven makes things easy, uses standard
> conventions, is fun or whatever, but ant does a pretty decent job,
> so I am curious where the benefits lie.
>
> Is using maven for WO development a solution worth considering over
> using Ant, or is it simply a different way of doing the same thing?
> Are there any compelling reasons why one should invest the time to
> learn to use maven?
I have asked this a few times of a few people and have yet to get a
response that made we want to use Maven. I have used it a bit before
and it seems to add levels of complexity that I don't see the need
for. If anyone has any compelling reason, I also would like to hear
of them. Until then, Ant is simple, streamlined, and easy to use and
I will stick with that.
Chuck
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