Hi All, Apologies for the late reply, this is a work email and I have been on leave for the past few days.
Many of the changes that I have made are in reaction to issues found during our somewhat unusual (a mix of multi-module, cross-compile and static) builds. It would be nice to see this work being of value to others and as such am in favour of the unification of the project. I would be interested in having some input into the future development of the plugin. I haven't spent much time looking at other forks, as mentioned previously any work was purely reactionary to immediate issues, so unlike the others I do not have any grand plans for the future of the project at this stage. Regards, Richard From: Martin Eisengardt [mailto:martin.eisenga...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 October 2012 23:40 To: Curtis Rueden Cc: Maven Users List; Johannes Schindelin; Greg Domjan; Richard Kerr; Mark Donszelmann; Mark Donszelmann; Elliot Metsger; sthelen; Peter Janes; Claudio Bantaloukas; Mirko Jahn; sugree Subject: Re: Unifying maven-nar-plugin implementations Also, rather than migrating a fork directly, perhaps (if Mark agrees) we could migrate the @duns repo, then push all of Greg's changes back on top? That way, existing GitHub forks will all state "forked from maven-nar/maven-nar-plugin" afterward, which would be ideal. And to preserve old links Mark could fork it back into @duns again and update the README to state what happened. Thoughts? Sounds like a good plan. However I did not compare the forks so I do not have an idea how many work has to be done. But I will have a look in the next days. Presumably we would also want to similarly migrate cpptasks-parallel? I think so. It isn't maintained too (correct me if I am wrong). > Technical features can be discussed in the github wiki at the moment. Martin, shall we create a mailing list for the project? Perhaps a Google group? Then we can migrate this discussion there instead. Feel free to create it an invite the people :) Regarding cross-compilation: I know it is of interest (wouldn't it be great to build for multiple target platforms all from the CloudBees Jenkins on Linux?). My colleague has done quite a lot of work in that area, but there are some substantial obstacles. Shall we discuss further on our shiny new maven-nar-plugin mailing list, once it exists? Yeah, we should discuss it in a working group with experience on this topic. Setting up cross compilation and having a maven-nar-plugin supporting it is not that easy.
