> -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:34 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Maven status (from my point of view) > > > On 04-Sep-2012, at 7:42 PM, Hugo Trippaers > <htrippa...@schubergphilis.com> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > The switch to maven is coming along nicely I think, however we are not > there yet. With the dependencies gone from the tree, the maven build is > now the easiest way to build CloudStack IMHO. All classes are properly > compiled and stored in jar files and dependencies are automagically > downloaded to make sure everything compiles. Over the last few days I've > added packaging of the systemvm.iso to the maven files and I did some work > on the awsapi. The awsapi is proving to be difficult as it has multiple > results > (.mar, .aar, .jar files and a webapp). Maven doesn't really like this. On the > other hand, maven has plugins to deal with axis2 and generate everything, so > with a bit of work we should be able to simplify this. Test code is not > compiled in some cases as there are some interesting circular references > (test code for server depending on vmware plugin comes to mind), that > needs to be sorted if we want maven to be able to do its job. > > > > I've spend the last two days to get packaging back into something that > looks workable. Even though we want to move away from waf, it seemed > like the best way to fix the packaging for now. With the exception of awsapi > all RPM packages are being built on my dev environment so that is looking > good. I don't have a debian environment yet, so I'm not able to test a debian > build. I haven't done any testing on the rpms yet, just verified that they are > build, hoping to do that tomorrow. > > Let's keep waf for sometime. But since ant is already broken :(
There are a couple of issues with ant now. The main issue is that the dependencies have been removed from the source tree, which is a good thing. However it means that you will have to get them yourself. See my mail on the mailing list on how to do that using maven. The debug server is broken now because the mysql libraries are not copied to the lib directory anymore because that lib is also gone. Put it in the webapp lib folder and everything should work, but I did not test this. > > > Couple of questions that I would like some feedback on: > > * Maven includes the dependencies with their original filename, I believe > we used to ship our deps with cloud- prepended to the name. Now we need > to either check if our dependencies aren't already supplied by the OS or put > them in a different directory, like /usr/share/java/cloud/*jar. What is the > best route to take? > > Fixable with a custom maven exec? I think it's better to ship these jars with > a > cloud- prefix (if there is no licensing issue) or for distro specific releases > (debs, rpms) have the dependencies added in the rules. > > > Feedback, ideas, > > I'm new to maven and I think many of us are too. Could you share with us > simple commands on how to use the ol' ant commands deploydb, deploy- > server and debug with maven. Do we have those goals running now, or are > the wip? For me ant commands don't work anymore. Good point, I've consolidated some info that was posted to the dev list and updated the wiki page here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Building+with+Maven > > > complaints anyone? > > For the past one week I'm unable to get my server running. > Not towards any specific person, but can we please not commit partial > changes into master at least? See the thread "[DISCUSS] Build process/binaries in our tree/candidate to begin testing with" for the how and why of this change. I agree it's a pita now, but hopefully it means we can ship version 4.0.0 when we fix this. > > Regards, > Rohit > > > > > Will send an update when there is something to report. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hugo > >
