I missed this earlier - I agree. The biggest advantage I find with Maven over tools that have adopted its dependency management philosophy is that every build essentially follows a predictable pattern, rather than being free form. A new developer automatically knows how to invoke it. That is most definitely not guaranteed to be true with any other build system that I know of.
So something like: Maven is a build tool which not only simplifies the common tasks of defining a build, but also makes it easy for new developers to know how to use the created build. On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we should hint at the descriptive philosophy rather than the > procedural philosophy most tools take --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
