Re: Re: [Beanshell-dev] Build file for BeanShel

I couldn't help but smile when I read this (in a good way).  Why?  Because that
is precisely what prompted the creator of maven to get pissed at the ant team
and take his ideas and make his own project rather than making it an ant
extension package or a fork at the very least.  I don't know the details of the
arguments, but essentially the guy felt like ant was too "stupid" and didn't
have a good way of aggregating knowledge about a project.  The strongest points
of maven are centered around project knowledge-based approach instead of
task-driven approach.  So you'd tell maven "compile this project" rather than
"execute compile task".  The neat thing is that you can create subprojects that
inherit project knowledge from their parent and give you reuse that way.  This
also works the other way by being able to tell maven to do something on the
parent project level and that call being propagated down the project tree,
allowing each child project to deal with it differently if need be.  Maven
originally was going to be a set of ant extensions, but, as I mentioned, an
argument ensued between the teams and maven became its own tool with ways to
call ant projects.  That's why I smiled.

--- Archie Cobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> CPMake sounds cool to me too. It's always bothered me how difficult
> it is to manage dependencies in ant, i.e., it's task based instead
> of depedency based (as Brian points out), or to create custom logic.
> Way to take the bull by the horns.
> 
> Also: there's no reason CPMake couldn't have simple adapters for invoking
> any of the already-defined Ant tasks. This would probably make adoption
> by the current army of existing ant users easier.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Archie
> 
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