Maven and Unix

[Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@xxxxxxxx>]

> It would be great if maven was part of the solution, and wouldn't turn 
> into a road block. It has great potential in both directions, as far 
> as I can see it.

I completely agree with this. While I understand the griefs expressed in 
this thread about Maven not playing nicely with the OS, I also think 
that it nicely solves some other issues like dependencies. It's true 
that those are also partially solved by apt, but apt is not universal, 
and I suppose it has too much unix-specific parts about it to be made 
universal. So it seems to me that the best would be to _improve_ Maven 
so that it meets the requirements of unix-like systems. What is needed 
is probably that people with an unix culture get involved in the 
development of Maven.

Daniel