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Kent R. Spillner
Personal blog · kent.spillner.org/blogprogramming
Kent R. Spillner's personal blog at kent.spillner.org covers programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kent R. Spillner's 2009 post on Maven build problems, which lists complaints such as unclear surefire test failures and slow builds. Commenters cite it in threads about Maven and build tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-01
What Hacker News says?
Maven love is far from universal: http://kent.spillner.org/blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-too...
Comment linking /blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-tools.html
on “MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core”Submitted Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair as a story · 42 points
HN discussionbetter link: http://kent.spillner.org/blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-too... After about a year of experience with Maven, I find that: * The "surefire" plugin is named ironically. The build often fails without a message about what unit test failed. * Maven is extremely slow. Eclipse builds the source in 30 seconds max; Maven takes 5 minutes. * Maven's output is extremely verbose, but if anything goes wrong, it "help…
Comment linking /blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-tools.html
on “Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven”Submitted Private Methods are a Code Smell as a story · 14 points
HN discussion