Re: Maven Skepticism

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2008 - 06:33:09 EDT

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    > Could someone tell me something encouraging about Maven?

    Check "WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition" thread on the WO
    list.

       http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-dev//2008/Jun/
    msg00345.html
       http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-dev//2008/Jun/
    msg00232.html

    It was highjacked half-way to discuss Maven. (I am linking to my post
    there, but the thread contained a number of more optimistic
    assessments).

    Andrus

    On Jul 2, 2008, at 2:11 AM, Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:

    >
    > Ok, so we have this really sucky build system based on cloning
    > generic.xml from Wonder circa 2005 or so. It gives me the willies,
    > because it means that the deployment builds are built with something
    > different then the development builds.
    >
    > So I thought, well, this maven stuff seems to be hip and happening.
    > I mean, Apple's providing nightly builds (which don't seem to be
    > nightly? No update since June 10th?). I only really want one
    > feature, which is to be able to work without thinking about the
    > deployment build in Eclipse, but then have the deployment build
    > match the Eclipse build.
    >
    > A few Eclipse plugin installs later...
    >
    > Supposedly, you can build the Wonder sources with maven. According
    > to build.txt, you just have to do:
    >
    > mvn --non-recursive org.objectstyle.woproject.maven2:maven-
    > wobootstrap-plugin::bootstrap
    >
    > Nope:
    >
    > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
    > [INFO]
    > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > [INFO] Required goal not found:
    > org.objectstyle.woproject.maven2:maven-wobootstrap-plugin::bootstrap
    >
    >
    > There's more steps in Build.txt, but they reference Common, which no
    > longer exists in Wonder, so they don't work either.
    >
    > So that's kind of discouraging.
    >
    > Could someone tell me something encouraging about Maven?
    >
    > Pierce
    >



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