Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Two refactoring questions

[Frankie F. <jsy...@te...>]

On 12/09/2011 14:01, Roger Westerlund wrote:
>
> I am not sure that Maven is the way to go for JSynthLib. I have been
> using Maven in my work for the last couple of years and I have seen
> Maven being bent over backwards to build a system. It is not a pretty
> sight. I think nothing beats Maven when it comes to dependency
> management and modularization but it is too easy to misuse Maven. I
> would rather look for something like Gradle (http://www.gradle.org/)
> when it comes to replacing Ant. I have not used it myself but I have
> hear people saying good things about it (people smarter than me so I
> trust them).

Interesting, I'm only familiar with ant - what are the problems with ant?

>
> And then we have Subversion... :-) Having used it in a setting where
> branching and merging is a daily activity, I know how Subversion
> performs. You don't really want to merge with Subversion. You do not
> really want to move files when you use branching and merging. And
> definitely not move files and edit in branches. I would rather try
> something like Git which was built for merging.
>

I would be very happy to use git or mercurial instead of svn.

frankie