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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:28:16 -0400
From: Matt Hogstrom <matt@hogstrom.org>
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Well, you got me.  Given that so many people are heavily into Maven I have to admit ignorance in 
there.  I think Anita had made a comment that she was reusing existing Geronimo code and that you 
were using something from Plexus.

Not everyone has that same mighty mass of knowledge you take for granted :)  Thanks for the 
clarification.

Jason Dillon wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
>> Also, it sounds like some of the changes are preferences based on 
>> style.  It would be a fair debate as to one should use Plexus or 
>> Geronimo infrastructure for the file delete activity.
> 
> Are you kidding me?  Maven2 is built upon Plexus... Maven2 is a Plexus 
> application.  Mojo's the Maven2 plugin system are also Plexus 
> components.  All of the major plugins are using the support framework 
> that Plaxus provides to handle these types of tasks.
> 
> There is absolutely no reason why we need to have duplicate code to 
> delete files in our mojos.
> 
> This is not style, this is common sense and appropriate reuse of the 
> Maven2 platform for our builds.
> 
> --jason
> 
> 
> 
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