----- "Hardy Ferentschik" <hibernate(a)ferentschik.de> escreveu:
Knowing that I might open pandora's box now - what alternatives
are
you talking about?
I assume you are not referring to ant/ivy.
I'm not :-) I don't like XML at all. As the wise man said: XML is like violence.
If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.
I'm specially talking about Buildr[1], which is a DSL based on Ruby specially made for
this purpose. Maven repositories are supported on this tool, but I think there would
definitely be a not-so-small effort to convert the Maven xml's to buildr scripts. The
scripts are much more human readable than XML files, but I suppose it requires an
environment with Ruby interpreter. I never did a real build with it before nor read much
documentation about it, so I don't know whether their claims are true or not. But if
there's enough interest on this matter, I can do some evaluation using our Hibernate
projects as target.
[1]
http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/
- Juca.