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Apache Maven 1.0 Released
darthcamaro writes "internetnews.com is running a story on the release of Apache Maven 1.0 this week. Maven is a very robust project-management and project comprehension tool that is unparalleled in either open source or proprietary software. 'Maven has a long history of pushing out beta after beta, so this is definitely an important release,' Jason Van Zyl, Maven architect release manager, told internetnews.com. 'For users it means that they will have something reliable now for their production builds.' From some of the comments that Van Zyl makes in the story though, it look like the upcoming 2.0 version will be the real killer app, though 1.0 is certainly nothing to sneeze at either..."
Let me clarify.
It's a great big pain in the butt.
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Codebusters?
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C:\maven-1.0>bin\maven
:)
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| \/ |__ _Apache__ ___
| |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~
|_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 seconds
Finished at: Fri Jul 16 17:34:27 EDT 2004
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It's a console app. You call it and it builds "stuff", much like Ant does. I don't really know much more than that right now, though, so no complicated questions please.
(Oh, and that "screenshot" is messed up, I had to add a "." to make sure it stayed indented properly, Slashdot messed it up otherwise.)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
The PHBs were very impressed ...
I didn't follow whether this was intended as praise or criticism.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
All's I know is that I go to the project directory I just downloaded from CVS, I type
maven eclipse
and all the extra files and shit I need for the project to compile and work are automatically there.
So far then, we've established that it's entirely opaque. OK, I feel we're getting there.
This isn't the project you are looking for.
Cat: "What is it?"
Cryten: "a project-management and project-comprehension software tool that uses a Project Object Model with XML storage"
(blank, smiling stare)
Cat: "What is it?"
Cryten: "a project management tool that increases developer productivity when working on Java projects."
(blank, smiling stare)
Cat:"What is it?"
Holly: "a computer thingy"
Cat: "Aaaaaah. Now why didn't you say that in the first place?"
(everything I needed to know, I learned watching Red Dwarf!)
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