Howdy, I just finished checking in mboot which is a tool that will build relatively simple Maven projects without Maven itself. It will build a simple JAR taking into account resources that need to be packaged. It's certainly far from perfect but I can bootstrap Maven and the plugins with it in addition to build most of my projects including plexus. Bob just tried it with drools-core and it works there too.
This little tool might also be handly for those who have an aversion to Maven and might also be useful to the gumpers as a lot of Maven projects can probably be built with mboot. There is a bit of Java to read the project.xml file and the rest is bash, so if you want to use it on windows simply install cygwin. I'll probably improve it over the next few days but it's working to bootstrap maven which is all I really care about atm. Anyway just thought it might be useful generally so I separated it and check it in. The source is here: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven-components/maven-mboot/ And you can get a little self extracting binary here: http://www.apache.org/~jvanzyl/mboot-install.sh ./mboot-install.sh Follow the instructions. Default install directory is ~/mboot export MBOOT_HOME=~/mboot export PATH=$PATH:$MBOOT_HOME Go to a directory with a Maven project and: mboot :-) -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
