On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Kristian Rosenvold < kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lø., 02.07.2011 kl. 12.22 -0700, skrev Ralph Goers: > > On Jul 2, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: > > >> > > > > > > Ralph, > > > No, you are not discouraging me in anyway. This stage is just the first > step > > > of a much wider task. The ultimate goal of this work is to provide the > > > ability to package maven-based builds to Gentoo system. Gentoo > encourages > > > and the package-management installs packages by first compiling them > from > > > source. So, as you can understand, if the package source uses maven as > the > > > build management tool, it needs maven to do the building and generate > the > > > jar. > > > > > > Further, there are other constraints involved. Mainly the packages > should be > > > able to use the existing jars available in the system (under > /usr/share), > > > and we've are not strict about having a specific version as a dep as > long > > > the existing system jar is api-compatible. > > > > > > I think what you're trying to do is tremendously gutsy, but I would > expect no less from gentoo :) > > Would you basically be trying to build the whole stack more or less from > trunk, or would you be going off the latest released versions ? > We are building the stack with Maven 2.2.1 tag. For the deps plexus and wagon, we tried to go with the latest released version available where we can. > I can't directly help you with the problem you're facing, but it would > sound like it might be coming in somewhere related to the site stuff, > which is integrated in 2.2.1 core. This was totally removed from 3.x > core, which is another reason why starting the whole lot with 3.x might > be easier; it has a simpler dependency profile. But I'm not going to > re-iterate that. > Yes, 3.0.3 looks cleaner. Well, I answered the points for choosing 2.2.1. We surely need to support 3.0.3 too, the future of maven. Is it possible Doxia plays a part here too? We haven't really bothered about these site stuff, and therefore, doxia version we have is a little older. --Kasun > > Kristian > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- ~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ Kasun Gajasinghe, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Blog: http://blog.kasunbg.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg
