So if I were to try to get Maven to build for IKVM, would you see some value in that?
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 Mar 2015, at 00:16, Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> Daniel Wilson <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]>> hat am 5. März 2015 um 23:16 > >> geschrieben: > >> > >> > >> Yes, it is needed for IKVM. But I was just informed that the IKVM > build is > >> considered an unsupported 3rd-party version. > > As Tilman already said, there wasn't any descision to stop supporting > it, but as > > none of the active committers uses .NET there wasn't any real support > for it. > > Additionally we never shipped any official .NET binary. > > > > There was a proposal to include the IKVM build in maven but I'm still > waiting > > for some answers and I didn't find some time to test it myself. > > At the moment the Ant build system seems to be a band aid preventing anyone > from bothering to figure out how to use Maven for IKVM. Let’s remove that, > because our inadequate Ant build is now causing problems from Java > developers, > as evidenced on the mailing list. > > — John > > >> As far as I can tell, it is also needed for the TestPDFToImage junit > test. > >> That is the testimage target in the ant build. > >> > >> Btw, I DID get the ant build to produce a working version of PDFBox > >> yesterday. I simply needed to download the appropriate binaries from > the > >> maven repo. > > We still have a jenkins ant build, which works well. > > > > Im just curious, as I build some unofficial .NET versions of PDFBox in > the past. > > What PDFBox version did you build, 1.8.8 or trunk? What version of IKVM > did you > > use? > > > > BR > > Andreas Lehmkühler > > > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I've never used it. > >>> > >>> Isn't it needed for the users of IKVM ? > >>> > >>> Tilman > >>> > >>> Am 05.03.2015 um 20:46 schrieb John Hewson: > >>> > >>>> Based on discussions on the users lists, it looks like our ant build > >>>> doesn’t actually produce working builds of PDFBox. I think we should > remove > >>>> the ant build in 2.0, we don’t need two build systems, and clearly > none of > >>>> us are maintaining it. > >>>> > >>>> WDYT? > >>>> > >>>> — John > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> > >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> >
