[jira] Commented: (JSPWIKI-651) Convert JSPWiki to a Maven project

["Janne Jalkanen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Janne Jalkanen commented on JSPWIKI-651:
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Personally, I think Maven is one of the most horrendous contraptions ever invented by humanity, but if someone else wants to do the work and agree to maintain it, go right ahead :-).  The reason really is that nobody has yet really needed Maven for anything...

(However, I've been playing with Apache Ivy quite a lot lately, and that seems much more approachable than Maven and it has really nice Ant integration.)

> Convert JSPWiki to a Maven project
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>                 Key: JSPWIKI-651
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-651
>             Project: JSPWiki
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Daniel Johansson
>            Priority: Trivial
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> Hello there, I was hoping to maybe one day contribute to the JSPWiki project and after having checked out the trunk code and played around somewhat I was thinking it would be very nice if this project used Maven.
> I'm sure most of you are familiar with Maven in one way or another, you might even have a really good reason for not doing this to JSPWiki.

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Re: [jira] Commented: (JSPWIKI-651) Convert JSPWiki to a Maven project

[Murray Altheim <mu...@altheim.com>]

Janne Jalkanen (JIRA) wrote:
>     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-651?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12876086#action_12876086 ] 
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> Janne Jalkanen commented on JSPWIKI-651:
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> 
> Personally, I think Maven is one of the most horrendous contraptions
> ever invented by humanity, but if someone else wants to do the work
> and agree to maintain it, go right ahead :-).  The reason really is
> that nobody has yet really needed Maven for anything...
> 
> (However, I've been playing with Apache Ivy quite a lot lately, and
> that seems much more approachable than Maven and it has really nice
> Ant integration.)

Heh. Yup, I seem to remember that was the reason that Maven never
showed up on our doorstep, and if it did we spirited it quickly
through the house and tossed it in the dumpster.

I've been doing Spring+Ivy development lately and can confirm that
Ivy is certainly a much more reasonable solution. If one is an avid
ant user it's just a logical next step, whereas Maven is like
drinking the Koolaid or swallowing the red pill or kicking yourself
in the head, etc.  I'd much rather see someone spend the time with Ivy.

Murray

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