Marshall Schor wrote: > > Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Marshall Schor wrote: [...] >>> >>> So, all you have to do is build the uimaj POM and install it to your >>> local repository. (Note that after things are released, any user would >>> automatically get the parent POM downloaded from the release >>> repositories, assuming they had maven set up to find these repositories). >>> >> Doesn't work for me. I do "mvn install" in the core, and I >> still have to manually copy over the uimaj project (or maybe >> just the pom, I never tried that) to build the sandbox. Is >> there another incantation I need to utter for this to work? >> > Hmmm. Here's my guess: > > 1) the mvn install does "work", but > > 2) there are *other* dependencies that use relative paths. It would be > great if someone tried this and reported exactly what the errors are... > then, perhaps we could solve these.
You're right, I no longer get the missing parent error. Thanks for fixing that. Now the only error is: [INFO] An Ant BuildException has occurred: C:\build\uimaj-distr\src\main\readme not found. This goes away when I copy uimaj-distr, obviously. --Thilo > > I think there are some issues with copying the LIC/NOT/DISC files - > because the source is located by relative links. That might be able to > be fixed. > > I am planning to change the source directory for these files shortly > (modifying only the uimaj pom) so that > if the LIC/NOT/DISC files are found in the dir of the project being > built, those are used (useful for sandbox projects which have different > LIC/NOT/DISC files to go in their JARs), and only if they are not found > there, then the main ones for the UIMA project are used as the source. > > That may help this one issue (#2) if that's all that's left by way of > "relative" path dependencies. > > -Marshall >> >>> There is a "trick" to building the uimaj POM - if you just say "mvn >>> install" in the directory of the uimaj project, it will build, but it >>> will also build all of the base UIMA. If all you want to do is just >>> install the POM, without building all of UIMA, you can do that using the >>> -N parameter: type "mvn -N install". The -N parameter stops maven from >>> processing the submodules. >>> >>> HTH. -Marshall >>> >> >> >>
