+1 to both paragraphs!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Michael Kay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@saxonica.com" target="_blank">mike@saxonica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">>All in all, I think it is fair to blame maven here.<br>
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I have a great deal of sympathy with both sides of this debate.<br>
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Maven is a pig to use. We've given up trying several times. The documentation is awful, the process is awful, there is no way of testing your artefacts, and when you get them wrong (as we have done) there is no way of putting it right.<br>
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On the other hand, Maven is quite rightly focused on meeting the needs of its users rather than package developers. Those users do have complex requirements, and individual components like JDOM or Saxon are tiny parts of their overall systems; they don't want to tailor their working methods to the idiosyncracies of individual packages. (And they certainly don't want to have upgrades foisted on them: when something isn't broken, they don't want to fix it). So as developers, I think it's reasonable that we should make some effort to fit into the process the way it has been designed. But it *is* an extremely frustrating experience, and I'm not convinced it needs to be.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Michael Kay<br>
Saxonica</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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