Re: Another Maven nugget

[email protected] wrote:
> I like maven 2. Not sure what all the fuss about it is here. The best
> part is you
> don't have to check in jars to source repository (i.e. cvs) . It grabs
> to from a central repository and places in your local repository. 
>
>   
Well, my issue has always been that it's too complicated for the value
it provides.  And a
lot of the features that are typically touted as "benefits" of using
Maven are things that
I personally find little to no value in.  The whole "website generation"
thing, for example.
Those default Maven generated sites just aren't something I find
particularly valuable. <shrug />

But that said, I probably just got an initially bad impression because
M2 - as I understand
it - was very buggy in it's early releases, and because the
documentation wasn't particularly good.
Maybe both of those issues have been corrected now?

But I still don't see how Maven provides any value beyond what Ant does,
other
than - arguably - the transitive dependency stuff.   And it adds all the
"black magic"
and it's corresponding problems.

<http://dev.jicarilla.org/oldwiki/TooMuchMagic>

<http://jroller.com/page/carlossg?entry=the_black_magic_inside_maven>
(see first comment)

Anyway, my point in starting this thread was to ask "Who does like
Maven, and why?"
So I'll throw that out again.. .for those of you who do like Maven, what
about it
do you find appealing? What makes it better than, say, Ant?


TTYL,


Phil

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