Re:Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair
by hello_moto on Friday January 01, 2010 @08:43PM
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Rant or not you hit the jackpot.
Most Maven users are "forced" to use it when they join a company or a project; they did not pick up Maven and learn it on their own time.
Re:Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair
by bokchoi on Friday January 01, 2010 @08:42PM
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It sounds like the author has had quite a bit of experience with Maven and most likely has RTFM.
Re:Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair
by zenocon on Friday January 01, 2010 @10:23PM
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Sounds much more like a rant to me. The complaint about the war file size is a prime example. There are several quick / easy ways to analyze this and fix it / force it to generate exactly what you want. None of that is particularly advanced mvn black magic.
It sounds like he chose to just give up on the tool, spend a lot of time ranting about it on a blog, and go back to what he was familiar with.
1) try maven but don't bother to RTFM 2) run away with your hair on fire and back to cave-man tools like Make, Rake & Ant 3) ignore dependency management 4) re-invent the build script for _EVERY_ project you start. 5) ??? 6) profit!!!
You only ever hear rants like this from people who don't spend the time to learn maven. It's not that hard. This is just rants.