Excellent!  I'm working on it and on some instructions regarding what
plugin to add and how to configure it.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:22 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > 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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