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I too think maven (from 2.0 onwards anyways) is awesome. It's also declarative, BTW, which is a big improvement over Ant. Maybe somebody should re-skin maven
by gerbilly 10y ago
I too think maven (from 2.0 onwards anyways) is awesome.
It's also declarative, BTW, which is a big improvement over Ant.
Maybe somebody should re-skin maven with a yaml based front end to attract the hipsters?
- snuxoll 10y ago> It's also declarative, BTW, which is a big improvement over Ant. It's an improvement over pretty much anything else except for maybe cargo and whatever that haskell build tool is (name escapes me right now). Builds are not iterative/procedural tasks in my mental model, I simply have a list of inputs and desired outputs, so I agree that the declarative model of Maven is awesome. I absolutely hate dealing with MSBuild files, Rakefiles, grunt/gulp/whatever because they all focus on a chain of tasks in a specific order. Why should I have to tell my build system how to do its job, I told you what I want done, just do it! > Maybe somebody should re-skin maven with a yaml based front end to attract the hipsters? A YAML to pom.xml converter would probably be a rather simple solution to this. Honestly, I wouldn't mind it either, there's a lot of noise in pom.xml that I could do without even as someone who likes Maven.