Nicola, You beat me to it, I was preparing a similar mail -- see the Maven and Gump lists.
regards Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Apache Directory Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Maven and gump WAS: Rethink Subversion > > <ccing to gump ml> > > Brett Porter wrote: > > > > In general you'll also need to generate a vanilla Ant build file as > > > > Gump doesn't support Maven natively (yet?). Watch out for absolute > > > > paths both inside the Maven generated descriptor and the Ant build > > > > file, that sometimes get generated by "maven ant". > > > > > > Good to know! > > > > The Maven-generated ant build files can still be a little limiting > > compared to Maven itself unfortunately. It might be better to either > > find out the effort involved to get Maven running under gump, or have > > ant run maven via an exec task (same limitations apply?) > > > > As far as absolute paths turning up in the ant build file, I believe > > that has been fixed in the latest release of the ant plugin. > > > > Anyway, I'll put my hand up to contribute in this area going forward. > > It would be *really* great in having Gump use Maven directly for builds. > Currently a refactoring of Gump made in Python is almost ready and works > like a charm, so help there is appreciated. > > In any case, here are the major issues to be solved: > > 1 - Maven needs to be given the jars by Gump and not download them > 2 - Gump needs to understand the Maven descriptor > > That's all IIUC. > > If you are knowledgeable of Maven and want to help, pop into > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll see that your efforts can be made to > good use :-) > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
