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Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition
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Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition


  • Subject: Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition
  • From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:56 -0700


On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Q wrote:


On 11/06/2008, at 8:20 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:

Am 11.06.2008 um 11:59 schrieb Q:

intuitive configurability as ant.

Uh. You're kidding, right? Right??



Probably not the best phrasing. By that I meant that ant is not magic, you want it to do anything, it has to go into your build config. If something is not in your build config, it's not going to magically happen. This behaviour is, predictable, repeatable and deterministic, making the scope of ant's "configurability" pretty intuitive, writing that "configuration" is another story.

Maven on the other hand has magic, externally dependent plugins and implicit behaviours that can change without warning over time if you aren't careful about your dependency management, so you may not be able to tell what your build is going to do just by looking at the config. If your build used to work, and breaks later on, it might have nothing to do with your build configuration and instead be the result of some external dependency change outside your control, making it potentially very difficult to resolve. This is not what I would call intuitive configurability.

I have to confess, that REALLY does not sound like something I would want to add to my build process. What do all of these potential problems buy you?


Chuck

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 >Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition (From: Mark Ritchie <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition (From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>)
 >Re: WebObjects Nightly Builds and WOLips addition (From: Andrus Adamchik <email@hidden>)
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