On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Josh Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I make this case in the face of so hostile a mentality? Have you > ever > had to make the case? Any insight on how to move forward would be > appreciated. > Well: you believe it'll solve some problems for you. Look at those problems and solutions and see if any of them matter to the people to whom you'll be making the case, or if the ancillary effects (the time it takes to make a change, the reliability of the software) might matter to them. Secondarily, try and make yourself aware of the problems that they believe they face, and whether or not Maven can help with those -- ultimately, if you make your case in terms of the things they care about, that's where you're most likely to make an impact. It's hard for me to know, on the outside, who those people are, what they care about, the problems for which they'd like solutions, and so forth, so I can only give you the advice on this generic level. Ultimately, though, if you've already got Ant, I'd say that there aren't a ton of problems that you can solve with Maven that you can't solve with Ant; you might find the one or the other more to your liking, but if you can't get through these issues with Ant, I'm not certain that you'll be able to do so with Maven. (There are a few areas where the capabilities Maven stands out from Ant; things like metadata about dependencies that, if reliable, can tell you the license of the project, and so forth, but I find those to be the exception rather than the rule). - Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Wiseman
