Trouble maintaining this repository

[blackears]

Just wanted to make a post about problems that I'm having keeping this repository up to date. I created the first version of SVGSalamander back around 2003 and things have changed quite a bit since then. I now rarely touch Java and haven't used it in years.

I'm also finding this project increasingly difficult to maintain because of Maven. Maven is a god damn nightmare of a build system. Back in the early years I was using Netbeans' native build system, and then migrated to Ant. I liked Ant since it was easy to understand, easy to use and easy to extend. But then the Java world moved on to Maven and I don't even know how to build projects anymore. I can't even do simple debugging because I cannot figure out how to create a project that depends on another project that's sitting in another folder in my filesystem. Gradle isn't much better.

Netbeans also seems to be well past it's prime and nearly unusable now. I'm trying Eclipse, but I'm unfamiliar with it. I could really use some help just learning how to set up and maintain modern projects. I'm still good with hacking the core code of the project itself. I just have a great deal of trouble even working with it any more because setting up projects and building is like walking over broken glass.