There's a shell script sitting on my blog i've been meaning to integrate that should be a good starting point for this. It's on the M3 announcement i think. The other thing that the ant files don't do that they need too is generate the perf test scripts. Other than that, i am +1^lots for getting rid of them.
On 12/2/08, Martin Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/2 Rafael Schloming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Martin Ritchie wrote: >>> >>> 2008/12/2 Rafael Schloming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> >>>> It's been noted in several different threads now that the maven poms >>>> currently checked into SVN are out of date, don't work, and are >>>> confusing >>>> people new to the project. >>>> >>>> So far the only reason given for retaining them is the convenience of >>>> being >>>> able to use them to generate IDEA/Eclipse project files. IMHO it would >>>> be >>>> preferable to simply check in a standard set of project files, and keep >>>> any >>>> mechanism used to build them outside of SVN. >>>> >>>> I'd like to propose removing the pom files before the next RC. Please >>>> let >>>> me >>>> know if you have any objections. >>>> >>>> --Rafael >>> >>> Can we also remember to check in pom files for the client and common >>> modules so we can still publish our client library to a maven repo. >>> Something we haven't done yet but should be on our list of goals. >>> >>> Was it not originally on our list of tasks for the new ant build system? >> >> I'm confused. Is this an objection to removing the maven buildfiles? >> >> --Rafael > > Its not an objection if we have the ability to create poms for the > client/common modules from ant. > > We probably don't even need to auto generate them as a first cut > though that of course would be way better so we don't have lot of > testing overhead at release time when we find the files have rotted. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Ritchie > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Apache Qpid - World Domination through Advanced Message Queueing http://cwiki.apache.org/qpid "Have we anything resembling a plan?" "Mm-hm. Ride till we find them... and kill them all." - The 13th Warrior
