Re: Mavenizing Tomcat : Was: Osgifing Tomcat

> Filip, this is a fairly rare case where I disagree with you ;)
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
> <devlists@...> wrote:
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>>  simply because it requires changes, I like to think we work according to
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> It can be done without requiring any changes.
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>> "if it aint broke, don't fix it", and since the maven build doesn't give us
>> anything the ANT build already does, then there seems to be little point of
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> It's easier.  That's it.
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>>  I suggest you go back in the archives, the comments you'll see this time
>> around, will be the same when this issue was brought up last and was voted
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> Not true.  I, for one, spoke against it in the past.  Having used
> Maven 2 for 2+ years, I now prefer it over Ant.  Moreover, I can
> testify that it's saved me and my teams considerable time and resulted
> in more consistent and cleaner builds.  I haven't even bothered to
> subscribe to users@..., much less dev@..., I've just been
> a pure user and it's been cool.
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> But like I said earlier, it's not worth disrupting the current Tomcat
> build or source layout.  Only if it can be done without requiring any
> changes, which it can.
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