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January 25th, 2004 at 10:42 am
Trouble is Hani’s “experience” with Axion is non-existent, and his comments regarding it are false.
January 25th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
I don’t think you’re problems are Maven’s fault. It’s idea of a local jar repository is as good practically as its theoretically. I agree you won’t realize it the first time you use it, but in a longer run.
The real problem is (like Cedric and Hani have pointed out): open source projects are more often than not unpolished. Without digging into the source (at least a bit) some won’t get you nowhere. Jelly may be a special candidate. It seemed like a good idea a few months/years back. But in the end it’s more of a tech demo (a clever one, no doubt) still looking for a problem…