On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
> ant elder wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ant elder wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually I would wonder what is the point of using maven to generate
>>>>>> an ant script that does exactly the same as the maven build.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In 1.x the ant scripts were provided as an alternative to maven that
>>>>>> use local artifacts from the binary distro instead of depending on
>>>>>> remote repositories.
>>>>
>>>> I meant to add, if working offline using local artifacts is
>>>> useful/important then i wonder if that should also be possible with
>>>> the Maven builds in the binary distribution. It might be nice if both
>>>> the Ant and Maven builds could both work offline using the
>>>> distribution artifacts, which would probably mean having the jars in
>>>> the hierarchical directory structure that maven uses and having the
>>>> Tuscany standalone runtimes work with that. At least that would then
>>>> have the jars in a fairly common and understandable structure.
>>>>
>>>> ...ant
>>>>
>>>>
>>> From this I presume you mean having these jars under the Tuscany
>>> installation directory rather than in the user's local maven repo.
>>>
>>> This seems like a good idea as it's first step to creating a more
>>> embeddable Tuscany runtime installation.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do that? It sounds like something someone else
>> must have wanted to do before, i guess with the assmbly plugin you
>> must be able to find the local repo and include that in a
>> distribution?
>>
>> ...ant
>>
>>
> I think the main problem comes when the user wants to use maven to load
> jars from some place on the file system other than the local maven repo.
> I spent a bit of time a few months ago looking for a way to do that,
> but I didn't find one.
>
> Simon
>
>
I've now spent a bit of time trying to do this too without much
success with any automated way. You'd think you should be able to use
the assembly plugin and copy files from somewhere like
${maven.repo.local} but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any
other ideas ?
...ant
