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Sean Gilligan edited comment on MNG-5749 at 1/3/15 6:44 PM:
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I'm spread pretty thin already on my side-projects and I'm not very 
knowledgeable about Maven or GVM beyond the user level. I'd be *very* happy to 
beta test something, but I'm not going to be able to contribute it.

I really like GVM and it installs almost all the command-line JVM tools I need 
(I'm Groovy-focused, but still do Java, of course) The biggest thing missing 
from it in my opinion is Maven. Unfortunately, the GVM maintainer doesn't see 
Maven as a "Groovy" tool -- so I don't see that happening.

Conversely, installing and keeping Maven up-to-date is more difficult than it 
should be and GVM (or something much like GVM would be a big improvement). I 
don't like using Brew for Java tools, but it seems like the best option for Mac 
OS, but I can't use it on the server.

Anyway, I'm just making a suggestion that I think would help everyone in the 
ecosystem.



was (Author: msgilligan):
I'm spread pretty thin already on my side-projects and I'm not very 
knowledgeable about Maven or GVM beyond the user levels. I'd be *very* happy to 
beta test something, but I'm not going to be able to contribute it.

I really like GVM and it installs almost all the command-line JVM tools I need 
(I'm Groovy-focused, but still do Java, of course) The biggest thing missing 
from it in my opinion is Maven. Unfortunately, the GVM maintainer doesn't see 
Maven as a "Groovy" tool -- so I don't see that happening.

Conversely, installing and keeping Maven up-to-date is more difficult than it 
should be and GVM (or something much like GVM would be a big improvement). I 
don't like using Brew for Java tools, but it seems like the best option for Mac 
OS, but I can't use it on the server.

Anyway, I'm just making a suggestion that I think would help everyone in the 
ecosystem.


> Support installation of Maven via GVM (Groovy Versions Manager)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5749
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5749
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Deployment
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.5
>         Environment: Mac OS & *NIX
>            Reporter: Sean Gilligan
>
> Installing and managing Maven versions could be made much easier with GVM. 
> GVM works great for managing Groovy, Grails, and Gradle versions. As far as I 
> know there is no technical reason it couldn't install and manage Maven as 
> well.
> The GVM developers have no plans to add support for 'maven', but they may 
> accept a contribution. In the meantime I'm using Homebrew on Mac OS X, but 
> GVM would be much nicer.



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