> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> 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]> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
