[Soot-list] Summary of Post-workshop discussion at SOAP

[Patrick Lam]

On 06/22/12 20:09, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
> Maven is an interesting beast to deal with. I guess that Ivy is some
> kind of compromise... keep your ant files, but have Maven download the
> dependencies for you.
>
> What you mentioned is a problem if dependencies are stored in some
> non-standard repository. But if we put our stuff in ibilio or something
> stable like that, the artifacts should be there until the end of the
> universe.

That was not what I experienced when I tried to build stuff using Maven. 
It was very painful when maven tried to download nonexistent versions of 
external dependencies using ibiblio. I strongly disrecommend using maven.

pat