Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >I agree. Also it may need to be reorganised a bit (one part concerning >deps, another concerning archives, whatever). This is just a feeling btw >- I have no clear organisation in mind, if you can do it don't wait for >my approval. > I don't have a clear idea. An easy algorithm would be to turn it into an ordered list: All headings into I, II, III, IV... All bullets into a, b, c, d... >ant is a very good cross-platform tool. Maven OTOH seems to have been >specified by windows people for windows people. Unfortunately an awful >lot of projects target windows nowadays. >We know Windows is the majority, but does this justify the exclusion of everyone else? I think our policies will help Windows and non-Windows users alike. Possibly any Windows problem that maven is trying to deal with is due to the single-user mentality of even ``multi-user'' operating systems like Windows XP, and these can only really be fixed by Windows.
Looking at maven (and even some jakarta projects), this may be a slight exaggeration, but it seems like I need my file layout exactly like the main developer has at his house. So for example, my xerces jar must be in D:/joe/My Documents/mySpecialXerces.jar and absoluely nowhere else.
I also mentioned these build sandboxes that they have where they have build (.xml) files that you need to build the code that they don't even distribute. I know for a fact that they are not distributed with the release tarballs on the web and I am not even sure that they are in CVS either.
BTW, I have tried to develop on Windows and I just can't... -- Sincerely, David Walluck <david@anti-microsoft.org>
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