On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 11:59 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi all, > > since some of the things I plan on doing affect the build process, > if only to define additional dependencies, I have tried to familiarize > myself with Maven 2. I must admit that the results were less than > satisfactory. While there is lots of documentation on the Maven 2 site, > it doesn't seem like much of it is meant for newcomers. Even choosing > the mini guides to read by their names requires some basic knowledge > of Maven terminology.
Welcome to the club of Maven skeptics. > > Specifically for HttpComponents, I have only been able to run Maven in > the "project/" directory. From there, it seems to access HttpCore and > HttpAsync. If I run Maven in HttpCore or HttpAsync directly, I get an > error that the "project" artifact could not be found. > Is this observation correct? If so, is that a temporary situation or > is it supposed to be that way? I tried "mvn install" in the project > directory, but some of the test cases report errors, so Maven cancels. > Do 'mvn install' in HttpCore prior to building HttpAsync. This will install a snapshot of HttpCore into your local maven repository. > Another issue I have is the connection between Maven and Ant. The > Maven documentation tells about an Ant plugin, which allows Ant to > call Maven. It also tells about using Ant to implement Maven plugins, > so Maven can call Ant. > But when looking at our files, I found neither. It seems as if the > Maven and Ant build processes exist side by side, neither of them > knowing about the other. The Ant build process has some peculiarities, > the most annoying one being the dependency of "javadoc" on "compile". > Some of the structure of the Ant build process could be explained in > terms of the Maven build process, but it looks like it that has been > rewritten in Ant. > Ant plugin never worked for me. I was always getting a broken build.xml and I gave up. > Once I have a clearer picture of what's going on, I want to compile > a Wiki page about our build process(es) for HttpComponents. > That would be a very welcome contribution. Oleg > cheers, > Roland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
