On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com>wrote:
> This seems pretty good, but is there a reason we need all the > jruby-blah poms to be in their own directories? Could there be a > single maven dir with pom-complete, pom-core, pom-stdlib etc? > > the modules section is such a list of directory-names and each directory needs a pom.xml to be module. the problem is only the pom - to create and attach any jar to pom is no problem but with jruby-core, jruby-complete, etc we a tailored pom for those jars. > One goal of this reorg is to clean up the repo root a bit, and moving > those to top-level seems like a step backward. > we can keep the current maven project with all its subdirectories no need to them into basedir. but I also realized one more thing: IDE support and for this we really need to make the main jruby artifact as straight forward as possible. this means move the main sources into its own module speak directory, I think the IDE support is really important - starting with myself as eclipse user. I also wondered when all the dependencies are maven artifacts then there is no difference between jruby.jar and jruby-core.jar ? not much I guess. maybe we can call the main artifact jruby-core then and make ONE more directory to the basedir: jruby-core ? - christian
