I'm all for it, and it sounds a nice opportunity to learn more about maven.
I will see what I can do about us having a repo so we can have cake and eat it! On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Julien Nicoulaud < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Let me give the main reasons why I made this proposition: > - Right now the project is quite difficult to setup in other IDEs than > Netbeans (IntelliJ IDEA user here). Maven benefits of a great integration > with most IDEs, so it makes it easier for developers to get started. > - The Java libraries are checked in version control, which makes it very > heavy. Maven pulls dependencies from repositories. > - The packaging and distribution of assemblies is easy, we can easily > package an assembly for Windows, Linux, for development, etc. through > descriptor files. > - The modularisation could be improved, for example it seems to me that > subpackages in org.syncany.connection.plugins should be packaged in > different Jars ? > - Also, Maven can handle the release process (doing a VCS tag, generating > the release artifacts, bump version numbers, etc), but it's not mandatory. > > @Jason: We don't really need a repo, I took a quick look and here is the > list of dependencies in libs/** that I could not find in Maven central > repository: > * AbsoluteLayout > * AppFramework > * eclipselink > * eclipselink-javax.persistence > * jpathwatch > * gdata-* > * j2ssh > These few jars could just stay checked in version control. > > Julien > > 2011/6/13 [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Maven is quite a treat. A lot of people are using it these days and has >> great advantages. I am not a maven expert by any means, but I can tell you >> that the nicest thing about it is that you describe a project and it's >> dependanices in an xml file so that when you build it all the dependancies >> are pulled from your nexus repo, which is just a smart-ish binary repo. >> Also, when your project builds successfully your artifacts can be stored in >> your repo as snapshots so that others can use them. >> >> The main idea of maven is that when a developer pulls the source there's >> no guesswork as to how to build and deploy the project, it's all done with >> maven. In doing so, the project has to adhere to certain standards, namely >> how the files and folders are laid out which is defined in a maven archetype >> and can even be changed if you want. >> >> This is why I asked if there was some sort of 'public' repo we could use, >> since we're an open source project, because to take full advantage of maven >> one needs a nexus repo, and I don't have one handy :) >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> I have no experience with Maven or Ant. Are there any significant >>> advantages in using Maven? Ant sort of integrated with Netbeans at the >>> moment ... >>> >>> If there are none, I think I agree with what Jason (nocans) says :-) >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Aside from the work of rearranging files and folders to match an >>> archetype, >>> > I don't think it would be of a great benefit unless the project had its >>> own >>> > nexus server. >>> > Is there some sort of free nexus server resource for open source >>> projects ? >>> > >>> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Julien Nicoulaud >>> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hi all, >>> >> Just wanted to know, are you interested in Maven-inizing the project ? >>> I >>> >> can do this. >>> >> Cheers, >>> >> Julien >>> >> -- >>> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>> >> Post to : [email protected] >>> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>> > Post to : [email protected] >>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >
-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
