Sylvain Wallez wrote:
By "chronic disease", I was referring to Maven. And it's not specific
to Cocoon, but to many other projects. Maven has brought one new
brillant idea to the Java world, which is artifact repositories (note
though that Linux repositories have existed for a very long time). But
using Maven requires to adhere to the whole thing: repository
management, which is good, but also a declarative under-documented
build system. And Maven is also self-updating, which is a nice idea on
paper but means the buid is not repeatable since you don't know what
is used to build your system.
Wow. I guess you don't like Maven.
There are other alternatives to your complaints - like becoming a
committer there and fixing them. Using Ant + Ivy has all the downfalls
of GNU Make. Instead of one "undocumented" (not sure where you get that
from) build system you end up with every build system being different
and usually, mostly undocumented.
As for the self-updating, dependency management allows you to have
complete control over the artifacts you wish to use. My contribution to
Maven has to continue to make that aspect better.
Ralph
