On Jul 4, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
On 5/07/2006 10:54 AM, David Jencks wrote:
I think the process is somewhat broken and that the maven team is
being far too strict about changing broken poms that were in fact
installed by the maven team, not supplied by the project.
(xmlbeans is the case in point for me). I also think that
traceability of where poms came from and under what auspices they
are added to either the repository svn tree or ibiblio is sorely
lacking. (again xmlbeans being my sore spot). We are in the
situation where a pom appeared from an unknown source, is wrong,
did not come from the project, and can't be updated. Much as I
like maven it's hard for me to see how this is going to lead to
success.
David,
I thought we'd agreed to fix that up? I can't find the issue on it
other than http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-406 which is not the
one I recall (that one is about stax which is a whole other problem
beyond the scope of Maven too).
that's the one. The xmlbeans pom does not have the required stax-api
dependency listed in it. As that issue notes, Carlos declined to
change the existing pom. IIUC Carlos said I needed to get xmlbeans
to produce the pom, which I am currently working on, see http://
issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLBEANS-277
The xmlbeans team have agreed in principle to cooperate but have not
in fact yet reviewed my first draft for things like correct urls. I
originally planned to produce a complete set of poms for their 3 jars
and 3 releases but am not sure how to test one of them. To me it
seems like its turned into an enormous amount of work to fix a really
obvious problem. One of the most frustrating things for me is that
there is no way to find out where the existing wrong poms came from.
Second most frustrating was that the MEV instructions turned out to
be 100% inaccurate, so following them to the letter was a complete
waste of time.
There was another problem with the maven xmlbeans plugin that Kris
Bravo fixed immediately.
thanks
david jencks
- Brett
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