Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
> Maven repositories as a common way to store open source artifacts
as are Ant-based projects
> and is easier to manage using Maven.
Depends.
I've seen Maven projects that were a complete cock-up to manage.
Ant or Maven, the biggest issues I've encountered involved obfuscation of
dependency chains.
> Maven build projects can be easily imported into any IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans, IntelliJ)
As can Ant-based projects.
> If I want to work on the project, I can be up an running in seconds by checking out and importing a Maven project
intomy IDE
Ditto Ant-based.
> without the need to understand the details of a Ant build
I am always deeply dubious of any argument that touts "without the need to
understand" as a virtue. This dubiety has yet to disappoint.
>and excluding paths to be considered as source code.
Sorry, but that is necessary to Maven-based projects, too.
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Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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