Re: [Exist-development] gradle vs maven

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

On 20 October 2011 02:55, Dmitriy Shabanov <sha...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dannes Wessels <di...@ex...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am on the maven side, I am convinced in the Prague days. I'll always be
>> healthy critical though on all used tooling, maven in special because there
>> are too many fanboys that think maven is the golden tool.
>>
>> At the moment we switch to maven, we need to re-do lots of logic we have
>> coded in ant right now. Maven does not provide all we need :) think of file
>> processing, rewriting. And.... The current layout with conf.XML does not
>> really map on the maven structure.....
>
> -1 : configuration is standardized staff
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html

You dont have to use the standard directory layout, you can use any
layout you want. However I think it would be good to use the standard
directory layout as this adopted widely even in situations where the
projects are not maven based. In fact switching eXist to a standard
directory layout is very very easy, I have done it here.

>
> file processing, rewriting - pluggins???

Its hard or impossible to understand what you are talking about from
just those few words. Please elaborate?


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> Dmitriy Shabanov
>



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