Hello Maven aficionados!
I am currently discussing on GitHub with one of the Gentoo packagers the
possibility of packaging my group's Maven-based projects for Gentoo.
The relevant issue is here:
https://github.com/imagej/imagej/issues/162
However, the issues are hardly unique to my projects. This has become a
very general discussion of rebuilding and packaging Maven projects.
My questions are:
* Does anyone here use Gentoo?
* Has anyone packaged their Maven-based stuff for it?
* Does anyone know of a _general_ process for doing so?
I am very interested in creating such a process if it does not already
exist. I believe that Maven is poised to make doing this very easy -- much
easier than without it -- even for Java projects with a large number of
dependencies, due to its well-structured nature and clear metadata
declarations in the POM.
Do others agree? Disagree? I have seen other threads here in the past about
building an entire Java dependency hierarchy from source, and how the
-sources JARs are not intended for that. But nothing about real-world tools
for actually doing it, which are driven by the POM metadata and package
things recursively in a way that works for source-oriented Linux
distributions, or otherwise for reproducibility.
Comments and ideas very welcome.
Regards,
Curtis
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Curtis Rueden
LOCI software architect - https://loci.wisc.edu/software
ImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer - https://imagej.net/User:Rueden
