[jsword-devel] Doesn't Maven offer greater power and flexability than Ant?

[Manfred Bergmann]

Am 21.02.2010 um 03:02 schrieb trent.jsword at trentonadams.ca:

> Hi,
> 
> There is a bit of a learning curve involved.  But, I find documenting the commands that a person needs to run to do various things, gets them up to speed faster, because they can still build, and can learn it as they go.  Because of the learning curve, I would recommend keeping ant for at least a few months; but, that does depend on the developers too.  Who knows, they might all learn maven quickly, and not want ant anymore.
> 
> Some developers may be frustrated initially, so you should keep that in mind.  I was very frustrated when I started on maven, but I couldn't let it go because of the flexibility it gave me.  Worst case, the ant build could stick around forever, right beside maven.  I would recommend maven for doing production builds.  That way you can push stuff up to the maven repository, so that everything is publicly available; rather than having everyone configure a custom crosswire repository.

Hmm. I'm actually hoping to not have work with Maven. I used it some times for getting template projects for Apache Wicket or Lift and some other but always found a way around it since then. Maven is a monster. :)
I've come to use Gradle instead:
http://www.gradle.org/


Cheers,
Manfred

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> ----- "avolunteer DrStovallFoundation" <pythondrs at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: "avolunteer DrStovallFoundation" <pythondrs at yahoo.com>
>> To: jsword-devel at crosswire.org
>> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:46:05 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>> Subject: [jsword-devel] Doesn't Maven offer greater power and flexability than Ant?
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>> Doesn't Maven offer greater power and flexability than Ant?
>> 
>>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:12:38 -0700 (MST)
>>> From: "Trenton D. Adams" <trent.jsword at trentonadams.ca>
>>> Subject: [jsword-devel] maven vs ant
>>> To: jsword-devel at crosswire.org
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>>> Hi Guys,
>>> 
>>> Is there a particular reason that the jsword project is
>>> still using ant?  Is it just a time commitment issue,
>>> preference issue, etc?
>>> 
>>> I'm fairly experienced in maven, and was thinking of making
>>> poms for it.  This would allow other developers using
>>> maven to easily grab just the stuff they want from the
>>> jsword project, via the maven repositories.
>>> 
>>> It appears that most of the directory structures are maven
>>> compatible.  So, if all goes well, ant could remain in
>>> place, as is, which would provide for an easier transition
>>> period for other developers.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 
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