Re: newer is not better

On Friday 16 July 2010, Aryeh M. Friedman said:

> I was forced to interact with Maven last night and man was it dreadful:
> 
> 	* Documentation was awful (I take back anything I ever said
> 	  about the aegis docs being confusing)

My experience with Maven was that it seemed to be anti-documented.
The only real documentation I could find was wrong or misleading.

It seems to be solving numerous problems, and not doing any of them
particularly well.  There are other packages that just try to solve
some of the problems (such as Ivy for the distribution).

My main annoyance is that it seems to only focus on build artifacts.
Tracking how stuff got there is kind of an afterthought.

David