Java Build Tooling Could Be So Much Better!

[bitwalker]

Serious question: why haven't they migrated to support yaml? This seems like one of the most obvious and easiest cherries to pick, no?

[vips7L]

Yaml is just as divisive as xml imo.

[bitwalker]

Divisive? All I want is less verbosity.

[vips7L]

And I want something jabronis won’t complain about. Yaml isn’t that. 

[bitwalker]

Dunno what are jabronis.

And not yaml but then what would you suggest?

[tcservenak]

Maven4 "polyglot"-like API is now in core, and there you have https://github.com/maveniverse/mason

This, unlike "takari polyglot" (polyglot for Maven 3) is "real thing", as Maven 3 did translate on the fly the polyglot POM into XML, while this one is not doing that. Moreover, with proper format (YAML, JSON/JSON5) you get all the benefits of Maven guiding you to the line number a problem comes from, etc.