Me too - not to mention I can't make WOWWDC! I'll be buying 2 copies
of the DVD though... :) Hopefully, it won't take as long to produce
as WWDC footage usually does!
On May 18, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> 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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