But that's a few weeks away ........ and the suspense while waiting
to see the answer is killing me!
On May 18, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>
> Le 07-05-18 à 13:27, Chuck Hill a écrit :
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Let's wait to Jake's demo of Maven at WOWODC :-)
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