Leo Simons wrote:
Which of those steps can not be done with maven?
* there is no usable svn library for java
<ant:exec dir="${maven.build.dir}" executable="svn" failonerror="true">
<ant:arg line="export svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/scm/Research/packetspy/trunk
${releaseDir}"/>
</ant:exec>
* there is no usable gpg library for java
<ant:exec ../>
* writing "interactive" maven plugins / ant tasks / java code is very
awkward
<i:ask question="Are you sure?" answer="result"
xmlns:i="jelly:interaction"/>
for sure, it can be done with maven, but *I* don't know how to do it
properly (I can show you some experiments which failed miserably if you
want).
Give me a sample gpg command line and I can show you how to do it.
What would you propose we do? Write a few thousand lines of java code
and maintain our own plugins, figuring out the everchanging and very
much undocumented broad landscape of maven internals?
Or maybe just write a handful of tags in xml?
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Cheers,
Peter Donald
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