so, instead of running the "mavenizer" (dotnet-plugins/settings-generator) 
through maven it would just run as a standalone program and update the 
npanday-settings.xml?

Am 21.11.2013 um 13:53 schrieb "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>:

> Hi Lars,
> 
> And what about the idea of creating a ".Net mavenizer" that creates maven 
> artifacts for all needed components and libraries. Then you could rely on 
> this maven structure and new .Net Versions or lib Versions would simply be a 
> Thing of updating the Mavenizer. 
> 
> This is the path we took for Flexmojos which relys on a Flex SDK, Air SDK and 
> Flashplayer libs. Ryling on libs in a certain structure on a System was a far 
> to fragile construct and keept on breaking things whenever a new SDK changed 
> the structure a Little.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: Lars Corneliussen [[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. November 2013 11:07
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: Building NPanday
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> for Azure we read the SDK paths from the registry (configured in embedded 
> xml-files).
> Some of the paths detection still runs in dotnet-plugins; I think it should 
> be moved to Java code in order to have it accessible directly (live) from all 
> plugins. (Now we generate a file npanday-settings.xml that contains the 
> information about installed .NET SDKs) 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NPANDAY-505)
> 
> But it is not easy to get everything to run in all environments. The 
> nuget-importer also needs to have nuget on the PATH - which I don't like at 
> all! But there is no default place to get it from… Same with NUnit. It would 
> be great if we could bootstrap things through nuget… Maybe embedding the 
> nuget-commandline bottstrapper…
> 
> _
> Lars
> 
> Am 13.11.2013 um 20:42 schrieb "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Ok so I had another look at the bootstrap thing and it seems to work ... 
>> think I should start looking at the stuff in the root directory and not 
>> trusting the documentation on the website ... this sort of never works ;-)
>> So I don't want to change a running system ;-)
>> 
>> Now I'm trying to run the integration tests. Here I was having a little 
>> trouble:
>> - I installed Azure SDK 2.2 (Sort of couldn't install 1.7) and linked that 
>> directory to C:\Programms\Windows Azure SDK\v1.6 and C:\Programms\Microsoft 
>> SDKs\Windows Azure\.NET SDK\2012-06 and it seemed to have worked a little :-)
>> - I have Visual Studio 2013 installed and some tests are skipped because of 
>> me not having 2010 installed.
>> - Still there are 18 Test failing (It seems some tests are currently not 
>> running ... which ones are known not to run?)
>> 
>> One other thing I found a little annoying in the integration-tests suite, 
>> was that it pollutes my local maven repository. I am the lead developer of 
>> Flexmojos and here we use the maven-invoker-plugin to populate a test local 
>> repo located in the test-harness' target directory and invoke child maven 
>> builds, resulting in the normal local maven repo staying untouched. After a 
>> "mvn clean" all of this is cleared keeping the normal local repo nice and 
>> clean.
>> 
>> Yet another improvement proposal would be the way the resources in the MS 
>> SDKs are handled. I have seen a lot of systemPath stuff in the test poms. In 
>> Flex we too have different versions of SDKs that are installed to different 
>> places, which need to be accessed by the maven plugins. Instead of somehow 
>> accessing the files in their native locations, I created a "mavenizer" 
>> application, which creates Maven artifacts from the files in the SDKs and 
>> allows deploying these locally and in remote repositories. What do you think 
>> about creating a MS SDK mavenizer, which makes everything maveny and allows 
>> reducing the complexity of the plugins greatly?
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. November 2013 16:15
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: AW: Building NPanday
>> 
>> Sure,
>> 
>> I'll create an issue and attach a patch as soon as I'm home.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Brett Porter [[email protected]] im Auftrag von Brett Porter 
>> [[email protected]]
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. November 2013 13:25
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: Building NPanday
>> 
>> On 13 Nov 2013, at 6:44 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Brett,
>>> 
>>> Well in my checkout I added two profiles "default" and "minimal" each 
>>> containing only a "modules" section. Minimal only referencing the 
>>> compiler-maven-plugin and the default containing the normal 
>>> "modules"-section. I then disabled the Profile which automatically disables 
>>> itself as soon as the bootstrap property is set.
>>> 
>>> At least this way is buildable using
>>> 
>>> mvn clean install -Pminimal
>>> mvn clean install
>>> 
>>> without having to have any Prior Version available in any repo. I would 
>>> much favour this Approach and it would be much more like other maven plugin 
>>> Projects are Setup.
>> 
>> Yep, sounds good to me - would you like to contribute that as a patch in 
>> JIRA?
>> 
>> - Brett
>> 
>> --
>> Brett Porter   @brettporter
>> http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter

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