On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Simon Laws <simonsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:12 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> What was the process you were hoping to follow Ant? It sounds like:
>
> 1/ build the Tuscany source to popular .m2/respository
> 2/ create a distribution which packages .m2/resposityr maintaining the
> same structure
> 3/ install the distribution with the packages respository intact
> 4/ run mvn but point it at the repository installed from the distribution
>
> is that close?
>
Yep.
There is also a way using the <repository> element in the assembly
descriptor
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html#class_repository,
but that doesn't seem to include any plugins.
...ant
