On 12/7/06, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Define nice? If it's an installation that is different then something standard that users typically get then it is a not a good thing. I can just see the threads now: "I put my global stuff in the /etc/maven/settings.xml and blah blah blah" "In /etc/maven/settings, mine is in $MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml" "I don't have a $MAVEN_HOME/conf" "What version are you using?" "I'm just using what came with Redhat/BSD/Solaris" So instead of having our standard platform neutral single directory structure, we have each distro doing whatever they want. If it was a package that dropped stuff into the standard way we are doing things great. If not then I'm am so strongly -1 to any such work I can't be emphatic enough. It will fracture out user base completely. I frankly don't care about distros, I care about our users and their experience and their ability to communicate with other users regardless of what platform they are on. Having different setups because Redhat/Solaris/ BSD feel like doing things different is not a good thing.
I am +1 on this one and I think it would really break the standardization that Maven uses but on the other hand, those RPMs have always done this for every product (anyone using jpackage?) The next step I see is rpm foo needs maven for some reasons and users *have* to install it the with the RPM. This would really be the mess. That said, I guess they know what they are doing and they certainly know better users' needs than us. Cheers, Stéphane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
