They've clearly gone to quite some effort to document it thoroughly. Yet whenever I have to read any of it my brain rebels and my eyes just slide off.
I think it may be a case of just too much jargon.
It's probably also because Maven problems are not the fun kind of problems, but rather the irritating kind. Whenever I'm trying to figure out how to make it do something it's because Maven has gotten in the way of the thing I actually want to be doing.
Yes, after using Maven for so many years, I also find it very hard to understand Maven documentation. In the end, I have to depend on code samples from tutorials and trial and error to figure out stuff.
They've clearly gone to quite some effort to document it thoroughly. Yet whenever I have to read any of it my brain rebels and my eyes just slide off.
I think it may be a case of just too much jargon.
It's probably also because Maven problems are not the fun kind of problems, but rather the irritating kind. Whenever I'm trying to figure out how to make it do something it's because Maven has gotten in the way of the thing I actually want to be doing.