Guys,
since I am looking towards getting away from Maven, the question is
what should remain and what should be tossed from Maven's "imposed
structure".
On one hand, there are many things I like with Maven, such as
everything up to building a jar file with classes and a jar file with
source code. But beyond that point things starts get messy very
quickly, especially if you want to deliver an open source project, as
tarball in sources and binaries respectively. I would therefor like to
build the 'requirements' from the end result's point of view;
If we view Qi4j as a single project, that happens to have the modules
of 'core', 'libraries' and so on, and we want a source distribution
available and a binary SDK available, how should these look like?
Also, I think it is convenient to be able to 'overlay' both the binary
and the source distro into the same directory;
Binary tarball;
$root/
lib/ # Flat or Mavenized structure?
javadoc/
index.html
org/
documentation/
index.html
reports/
index.html
coverage/
unittests/
samples/
dddsample/
pom.xml
src/
main
java/
org/
tutorials/
index.html
composite/
index.html
LICENSE.txt
NOTICE.txt
Source tarball;
$root/
src/
build.gradle
gradle.settings
gradlew
gradlew.bat
qi4j-core/
build.gradle
gradle.settings
api/
main/
docs/
java/
test/
java/
bootstrap/
main/
qi4j-libraries/
:
qi4j-samples/
build.gradle
gradle.settings
dddsample
main/
sample/
pom.xml
src/
main/
java/
So, if one downloads the SRC tarball and run the build, one should end
up with the BIN tarball that one can download.
If that (the end game) is the starting point of a build system,
doesn't a lot can be backed out from that??
Since we have multiple GitHub repositories, we would need a
consolidated master build view, where the repositories are linked in,
let's say in the qi4j-sdk repository that already exists. So, if we
simply link them into the SDK repository, wouldn't it then make sense
if the layout of the Git repository follows that we have in mind for
the SRC tarball??
Anyone else have any thoughts on this??
Cheers
--
Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
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