>>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:03:45 -0400, "Daniel F. Savarese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey D. Brekke
> writes:
>> standard stuff won't do. Or better yet, lets just put the two
>> lines from the NOTICE.txt into the README.txt.
> We can't do that because putting it in NOTICE is required by the
> Apache License. If I didn't miss anything, we're talking about is
> getting NOTICE.txt into the jar and the tarball. I'm no Maven
> maven, but it looks like what you have to do is add the following to
> project.xml: <build> <resources> <resource>
> <directory>${basedir}</directory> <targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
> <includes> <include>NOTICE.txt</include> </includes> </resource>
> </resources> </build>
That will work nicely for the jar.
> That will take care of getting NOTICE.txt into the jar file.
> Although, for the life of me I can't tell how the jar plugin picks
> up on the resource info ... As far as getting the file into the
> distribution goes, I think we're going to have to patch the dist
> plugin to make it customizable and submit that to the Maven team, or
> just maintain our own Commons dist plugin as Jeff suggested. The
> dist plugin doesn't appear to be customizable. Of course, the Maven
> team will eventually add <ant:include name="NOTICE*"/> to the dist
> plugin, but that doesn't solve the general problem. It seems like a
> lot of Maven plugins should be extensible or at least customizable
> so they don't force a single way of doing things on the end user.
> Otherwise, you wind up having to write your own plugins which is not
> exactly an efficient way to go about things when an existing plugin
> already does most of what you need. Which is to say that it's
> better if we add a hook to the dist plugin that allows arbitrary
> files to be pulled into a distribution and ask the Maven team to
> apply the patch.
<postgoal> and <pregoal> allow for hooking onto goals.
I think we can extend the preparation of the tar dists with
<postgoal/>. Inside the postgoal, copy the NOTICE file into the
correct directory. I'll try it soon.
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