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I worked for many years in the enterprise java world, and when I went to do other things I was surprised how bad or incomplete package management is in other la
by devman0 4y ago
I worked for many years in the enterprise java world, and when I went to do other things I was surprised how bad or incomplete package management is in other language ecosystems. The maven packaging system (as distinct from the Maven tool itself) makes managing dependencies for building and shipping java applications much more sane.
- chaosite 4y agoTo reiterate the point on the Maven packaging system vs. the Maven tool itself: All the post-Maven build automation tools in the JVM world, including Gradle, Apache Ivy, and sbt (the Scala build tool) use Maven repositories. Good package index sites give you the syntax to grab the package in your tool of choice, for example (click the tabs): https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3/3.12.0 https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/common...