> -----Original Message----- > From: easyproglife [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: POM to ivy.xml converter required > > Great. > > If so, maybe it's time to start contributing ivy.xml files to > various open-source projects. For example, I am currently > dealing with Codehaus XFire. They have pom.xml file along > with their examples and I had to download and install Maven > in order to use them. Maybe we can initiate a progress of > contributing ivy.xml files for such projects. > > (But, ivy alone is not enough. Maven also does the build. > Supplying build.xml may be a much more complicated task. I > don't think we can do automatic pom.xml to ivy.xml + > build.xml convertion easily, unless automatically creation of > build.xml from pom.xml (+ the relevant Maven > plugins) is a possible task... I am not sure.) > > What do you think? >
I thought Ivy was able to read pom files directly? Isn't it the case? If ivy can read pom.xml, why do you need to translate. I'm sure there exist some use case, but usualy you don't need it. Am I wrong? Concerning the conversion to build.xml, it could be usefull. But it would require to have ant task façade for all maven plugin (+ for some of the internal maven function), and I guess it is out-of-scope for ivy. Note that I have already read a few message on the maven mailing lists arguing for a better interaction between maven plugins and ant task. But it was quiet old. Gilles
