> On 7 Mar 2015, at 14:48, Daniel Wilson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> So if I were to try to get Maven to build for IKVM, would you see some
> value in that?
> 

Definitely.

— John

> 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
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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