Hi Martin,
On May 21, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Martin Gilday wrote:
> As a fairly heavy user of Maven I am all to familiar with where it can
> fall short. Having a tool with some of the concepts behind Maven but
> with the power of scripting rather than xml configs could be a
> wonderful
> thing.
>
> With regards to dependencies making use of existing M2 repositories
> would be essential for me in working with and transitioning from
> existing projects.
As written in my original mail, we definitely support the Maven
repository layout. Whether for retrieving single dependencies or in a
transitive manner is a different question :). At least people should
be able to disable transitive dependency handling.
> One problem I frequently come across with Maven is
> that it relies on everyone else using it for it work well. By this I
> mean if I want to use a framework I need to hope they have put in the
> central repo. Otherwise you need to try and convince them to do it.
> The usual suggestion from the Maven mailing list is that you can of
> course install to your own local or organisational repo. But this can
> be complicated and time consuming if all you want to do is try
> something
> out.
> You have to workout the transtitive dependenices and then install
> those as well if they are missing. What would be great for this would
> be the ability to include from a central maven repository but also
> simply depend on a few jars you may as with an ant style classpath
> include.
The nice thing of our approach is that we don't have to do anything
difficult to make this possible. We don't have to change any xml
format :). You can add to your classpath whatever you want in a one
line statement. We just don't know the syntax yet ;).
- Hans
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