On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:50:57PM +0200, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... > At the same time, the Maven vs. Centipede debate is a human one, > technology is something that can easily be changed, personal feelings > aren't. There is friction between the people behind Maven and the > people behind Centipede.
I think it goes deeper than people friction. Maven tries to "embrace and extend" Ant/Gump/Velocity/JJAR/Avalon/The World, whereas Centipede tried to work with them. So personally (everyone gets 2c to spend, right?), I don't think Cocoon should bet on Maven (philosophical reasons) or Centipede (technical reasons). Stick with Ant. Ant 1.6 has this <import> feature (similar to XSLT import), that is going to make complex build systems like Cocoon's *much* easier to manage. Best feature since Ant was invented. ... > We care about Forrest, we care about Gump. If Maven does good things > but lacks a few, we should use it *exactly* for that: so that we can > improve it, build synergies, instead of wasting energies in progressing > a competition. It's not fun managing 13Mb of Cocoon jars in Forrest's lib/ directory, so I'm keen to see Cocoon adopt some sort of jar repository system. Ruper developers seem off in their own little world, so I guess it's <get> or Maven. I know which I'd prefer, but its up to those who do the work. --Jeff > These are my two cents, anyway. > > -- > Stefano. >
