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by Mike Dillon-4 :: Rate this Message:

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begin Andreas Schaefer quotation:
> I am not quite sure if we have the same goals. They want to combine
> Groovy and Maven but I want to create a replacement for Maven 2. I was
> very critical of Maven 2 even before it was released and still prefer
> Maven 1 over 2. Now Jelly is not really my scripting language of
> choice, Maven 1 has no transitive dependency support  and its
> development has more or less seized. I selected Groovy as scripting
> language because I can mix Ant statements with scripting code. Later I
> decide to use Groovy for the entire project rather than just for the
> plugin scripting.

Yeah, I realized this once I looked at your code. I think it may still
be possible that there are some shared goals in the area of bringing
together the power of Groovy with a Maven-like system, but the
approaches are certainly different since Graven is limited by Maven 2's
architecture.

-md

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