Request for stable, automated build process

[Hugo Mills]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:21:27PM -0400, Lally Singh wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, would maven be completely out of the question?

   Please, for the love of all that's holy, no.

   I work with maven in my job. It's the most horrible misbegotten
misdesigned piece of hideousness I've ever had the misfortune to work
with. I'm not alone in that opinion, either -- pretty much everyone I
know who's used it has the same opinion.

   I recently spent some time tracking down a build failure in our
automated build system. It was eventually traceable to some component
of maven -- still ostensibly the same version as the previous week --
changing under our feet in an incompatible way, so it decided to
reject a configuration that had previously functioned correctly. This
is not the only problem we've had with it. It has a track record of
being awkward and/or broken in ways that are not obvious, and it is
almost completely opaque when you come to try and debug them.

   Please, please, stick to make.

   Hugo.

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