Re: ANT vs Maven?

From	eric@invalid.com (EricF)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: ANT vs Maven?
Date	2013-02-17 05:01 +0000
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In article <kfpdt3$5g9$1@dont-email.me>, markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>On 2/16/2013 5:42 PM, Lew wrote:
>
>> Mind you, that project would have been just as entangled with Ant, because
> all you can
>> do is mirror that structure with the build tool.
>
>
>Ivy has a dependency reporting tool that looks like it could be helpful 
>sorting a project out if it starts to get too messy.  As I mentioned, 
>I'm totally new to Ivy and I can't say how well it works, but the 
>pictures of the reports Ivy generates sure look nice.
>
><http://ant.apache.org/ivy/features.html>
>
>Ivy will also read Maven dependency repositories (I think I said that 
>right) so you can still take advantage of Maven dependencies.  Ivy seems 
>to be an answer to those who find Maven's actions in response to those 
>dependencies a little off.  That feature pages gives some hints about that.
>
Ivy is meant to be used with Ant and manages the dependencies in a Maven like 
way. I think it works very well. 

Eric

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ANT vs Maven? Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 15:09 -0500
  Re: ANT vs Maven? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-16 12:47 -0800
  Re: ANT vs Maven? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-16 15:42 -0800
    Re: ANT vs Maven? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 17:42 -0800
      Re: ANT vs Maven? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-16 18:06 -0800
        Re: ANT vs Maven? eric@invalid.com (EricF) - 2013-02-17 05:01 +0000

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