Ralph, If you want to take a look at it, I can walk you through what exactly I did to try and get it to work.
-Robert Middleton On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > If you abandon using Maven that is fine, but if you need some help I’d be > happy to look at it when I can. Curt probably used a Maven 2.x release as > 3.x is pretty recent. You might try using the latest of that and see where > it takes you. > > Ralph > > On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:38 PM, Robert Middleton <osfan6...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> > wrote: > >> Guten Tag Robert Middleton, >> am Sonntag, 7. August 2016 um 02:51 schrieben Sie: >> >> > I took a look at the release procedure today and ran into quite a >> > few problems. >> >> A big "Thank you!" for your efforts. So in the end, it sounds like you >> vote for dropping Maven/Ant stuff altogether for the build and >> release? I think the only thing it's really necessary for is the >> creation of the site, Apidocs and such. >> >> Looking at the time you already invested, this might be the point to >> just let things go. I don't see when I have the time to rebuild things >> myself and this is only about the first release, there should be >> others in the future as well. :-) And even if the technical side >> works, there's that signing and voting stuff and such... >> > > I would agree with that. I don't know enough about Maven to properly fix > the problem, I know just enough to do what I have to do. Most of my Maven > knowledge comes from looking at what other people have done. > > The release process should be able to be accomplished with a small shell > script that ensures that everything builds properly, creates the website > and tags the code appropriately(this is basically what Maven should be > doing) > > >> >> > 1. What is the POM here for? As far as I can tell, the only important >> > things it needs to do are to create the website, and use the >> > maven-release-plugin to automatically create a tag in SVN. >> >> I can only guess the same, simply that Maven provided needed plugins >> to generate the web site and was therefore used as a starting point >> for everything else. >> >> > 2. Are there any C++ projects successfully doing this? >> >> I have no idea. >> >> > 3. Why is the distribution not made with autotools(since it already >> has >> > the capability of creating a tar.gz and zip files) >> >> I have no idea, my feeling is that carnold came from the Java world, >> used what he already knew and added things as needed by users. And in >> theory this whole ANT/cpptasks thing doesn't look bad, I could run it >> with some minor changes on my Windows using Visual Studio including >> building APR stuff around 2 years ago. >> >> > 4. How was this done in the first place? According to the SVN log, >> > carnold was the last person to create an actual release(8 years >> ago!)(he >> > did apparently use the maven-release-plugin though, the commit >> message says >> > so) >> >> I have no idea, I guess it simply worked using maven and started to >> not work anymore over time. There were other issues with the build >> process in the past as well. >> > > This would make sense to me. The build system has basically diverged in > the years since the last official release, so it's not too surprising that > it wouldn't work properly(although in an ideal world it should!) > > >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen, >> >> Thorsten Schöning >> >> -- >> Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de >> <thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de> >> AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ <http://www.am-soft.de/> >> >> Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 >> Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 >> Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 >> >> AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln >> AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow > > >
