Re: Why use maven for WO development?

From: Pascal Robert (prober..s.ca)
Date: Fri May 18 2007 - 14:34:40 EDT

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    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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