The DUB package manager

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 14:58 +0100, deadalnix wrote:
[…]
> Comparing ant and maven is not appropriate here as maven is a 
> build system + a package manager when ant only builds.

Comparing Ant and Maven is perfectly valid since the goal of both is to
build software from source.

> The plugin system of maven is notoriously hellish. This shows 2 
> things :
> 1/ That extending the build system is really required, and if not 
> permitted from the build file themselves, by plugins to extends 
> the descriptive capabilities of the descriptive language.
> 3/ That the benefice of having the build tool and the package 
> manager working together is big as people plebiscite it even when 
> the system is way worse on many other aspects.

Thank goodness Gradle is available and showing that whilst Maven Central
is a wonderful resource, Maven itself is second rate. Ant is fourth
rate.

We should note that Gradle and Maven have dependency management
including of artefacts. In the Java-verse an artefact may contain many
packages.

-- 
Russel.
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