On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:

> Thanks for the update David.
> 
> AFAIR, the ValidateFeaturesMojo allow you:
> - check if the features descriptor is valid regarding the XSD (introduced in 
> Karaf 2.2.0)
> - check if there's not missing features or bundles in the features descriptor
> 
> +1 to remove "old" Mojos.
> 
> On my side, I would like to work on KARAF-402 to gather all goals in one main 
> Karaf maven plugin.
> Do you prefer that you have finished your changes before starting this ?

I think KARAF-402 consists of moving the cmdhelp package to the 
features-maven-plugin src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling and changing the 
project name for features-maven-plugin to karaf-maven-plugin?    If this is all 
there is perhaps I could do it when I have a spare minute and time to update 
all the local projects I have that are using the plugin.  WDYT?

I could also try to come up with a command packaging that includes generating 
the cmdhelp.

thanks
david jencks

> 
> Regards
> JB
> 
> On 03/23/2011 12:00 AM, David Jencks wrote:
>> I've been working on the features-maven-plugin some more.  I added a sample 
>> assemblies-apache-karaf-minimal assembly to show some of what it can do 
>> (this is the same as the archive-server packaging but not using the 
>> packaging itself).
>> 
>> I rewrote the dependency tree analysis in the GenerateFeatureXml2 mojo to 
>> use aether.  Possibly it could be even simpler but this seems ok for now.
>> 
>> The InstallKars mojo now can install both kars and features.  By default 
>> bundles listed in features.xml are put into startup.properties.  After 
>> completing startup.properties, it uses aether to install all the (missing) 
>> bundles into system.
>> 
>> I don't understand the philosophy differentiating stuff put into system and 
>> started from startup.properties and stuff put into local-repo and started by 
>> other means.  IIUC if you do a clean start you will have to reconstruct 
>> everything you installed not listed in startup.properties, is this correct?
>> 
>> I'm considering making compile scoped features and kars get installed into 
>> system and startup.properties and runtime scoped features and kars installed 
>> into local-repo and the features cfg file (so at least the server will still 
>> know about them after a clean).  Is this reasonable?
>> 
>> Note that the sample apache-karaf-minimal assembly is much much faster than 
>> the apache-karar assembly.  I would prefer to use the new method.  AFAIK the 
>> missing piece is the source assembly.  Is this actually useful?  the release 
>> plugin produces a source archive that seems more than adequate to me.
>> 
>> What else needs to be implemented before we can remove some of the old mojos?
>> I think we can remove these:
>> GenerateFeaturesFileMojo
>> GenerateFeaturesXmlMojo (use feature or kar packaging)
>> AddFeaturesToRepoMojo  (use archive-server packaging)
>> 
>> I don't understand what this does, can someone explain?
>> ValidateFeaturesMojo
>> 
>> thanks
>> david jencks
>> 

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