With Pascal on the job, it will probably be ready before WWDC is
over! :-P
On May 18, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
> 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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