is it legal for me to check ditac source into github and convert its build system to Maven as proof of concept? ( so that it can be easily pushed into maven central )??
-D On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/23/2012 04:18 PM, Dan Tran wrote: >> >> Agree. It is a hard to integrate with Maven but NOT that hard. I am >> the author of dita-maven-plugin at codehaus, I am able to automate my >> entire Dita build process if all artifact are at maven repository. >> >> dita-maven-plugin is a wrapper around ditaoi ant build so I need full >> ANT packaging , ditaot minimal package, and jar dependencies like >> saxon, xerces, fop, etc. dita-maven-plugin does not achieve complete >> full automation if ANT full package and ditaot package at maven >> central. >> >> However, with ditac, i dont need full ANT to build my dita. The >> external scripts are also small ( compare to ditaot ) where they can >> just be zipped together into one artifact. >> >> Also the ditac ant build is very small and simple >> >> So if ditac source tree can be available at GITHub or some public SCM >> repository like codehaus/googlecode, I can help to push ditac to maven >> central easily. >> >> Now ditac is the truely alternative to ditaot and in my opinion, it >> has a big advantage over ditaot due to its simplicity >> > > Thanks for this information and also thanks for the compliments! > > -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
