Hi Bjorn, I actually spent some time on this same task last weekend, though didn't get far enough that I thought it was worth emailing the list. If you want to see what I did and compare to yours, you can find it here:
http://github.com/toddlipcon/thrift/tree/mvn Thanks -Todd On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Bjorn Borud <bbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > given the problems with getting libthrift into the Maven Central > repositories I figured I'd see if I can lend a hand, so I started > reading up on what is needed to deploy artifacts into the Maven central > repositories. > > it would seem that it would be easier to make this work if libthrift was > built using Maven (the signing, deployment etc). Mostly because Ivy is > sort of the ugly step-child of Maven so fewer people seem to be able to > help out. (Not that Maven is much of a looker, mind you :-). > > so I started hacking a bit to convert the build to Maven to see what it > takes. > > first I reorganized the sources to fit the Maven model (moving src into > src/main/java, and test into src/test/java etc). then I modified > build.xml so it will find the sources and tests and build. > > right now I am looking at fixing the unit tests so that they will run > under Maven, but at this point I am unsure how much hassle it would be > to make them work both with Ant and Maven. > > before I spend more time on this, would it be interesting to move from > Ant to Maven? > > my primary motivation for doing this was to see what I could do to help > with getting Thrift into the Maven Central repositories. > > -Bjørn > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
