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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: Re: gcj, maven, the GPL and ebuild
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:48:22
Message-Id: pan.2006.09.10.14.46.59.739058@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-java] Re: Re: gcj, maven, the GPL and ebuild by Alistair Bush
1 On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:10:58 +0000, Alistair Bush wrote:
2 [...]
3 >> >> Finally, I was amazed to read that maven is, apparently,
4 >> >> windows-centric. Very disappointing.
5 >> >
6 >> > Any source on this?
7 >>
8 >> This mailing list. There were complaints about maven being
9 >> windows-centric.
10 >
11 > Without reading back to see what esactly 'window-centric' means. This may
12 > explain why gentoo doesn't support maven currently.
13
14
15 first, a quick note, gotta go. second, glad to know the state of java's
16 better than I thought, my info was out of date. thifrdly, here's the quote:
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18 "ant is a very good cross-platform tool. Maven OTOH seems to have been
19 specified by windows people for windows people. Unfortunately an awful
20 lot of projects target windows nowadays."
21
22 from:
23
24 From: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@...>
25 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [architecture] Re: JPackages and ObjectWeb]
26 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.jpackage.general, gmane.linux.debian.devel.java, gmane.linux.gentoo.java
27 Date: 2004-02-01 18:13:30 GMT (2 years, 31 weeks, 4 days, 8 hours and 28
28 minutes ago)
29
30 <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.jpackage.general/4360/match=maven+windows>
31
32 err, I don't think that url will work...
33
34 of course, I'm just now noticing the date....
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38 -Thufir
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