Re: [vimplugin-devel] [Vimplugin-commits] SF.net SVN: vimplugin: [172] trunk/plugin

[Sebastian M. <seb...@un...>]

Am Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:36:51 +1100
schrieb David Terei <dav...@gm...>:
> Never used maven. Its exact purpose always confused me. Has one of those 
> websites that has a lot of information of which doesn't make sense 
> unless your familiar with the product or a similar one. What advatage 
> would maven provide over ant though? Maven always seemed to be a 'build 
> tool + more' to me and I'm not sure if we need the + more?

It has 

1) standardized the build process
2) huge repositories of external libs (like jakarta commons, jee and the like)

You have to use the standard directory layout and _declare_ a "project object model" (pom.xml) that contains information about:

  * SCM (CVS, SVN)
  * Dependencies
  * developers
  * deployment locations
  * etc.

And maven performs the standard build-process when launching goals (targets) like:

  * compile
  * deploy
  * javadoc
  * test

Given a good pom, it really works out of the box ...

Think about of how much standard code is in your build.xml, wouldn't a generic solution (one that is valid for all other projects too) be much better than build.xmls that are 90% similar to each other?

But we are getting too OT, I will look at it when I have time :-/

Sebastian.