Hi Eric,
You've done a lot of work in quite a short amount of time. Having gone
through the experience of converting a number of Fluid-related builds to
Maven 2, I'm impressed!
Eric Dalquist wrote:
Work has been happening on converting the trunk of the uPortal project
to use Maven 2 as the build system. This has been a complete conversion
so much of the directory structure has been re-arranged. The work is
complete and, with a little testing from folks on this list, ready to be
merged from the 'working-maven' branch back into the trunk. I would
encourage everyone to check out from the branch and give it a try. There
is a build.xml file that at this point replicates the main Ant targets
used by developers pre-conversion, initportal is still all you need to
run to get everything going after setting up build.properties. Please
provide feedback, there are bound to be rough spots and missing
developer features and hearing from developers is how they will be fixed.
We chatted about this in the IRC forum, but I haven't yet been able to
get the build to work on my Windows machine. Could be environmental, I'm
not sure. Has anyone else on Windows had any trouble getting the new M2
builds to work?
With this progress and new build system I need to get it properly
documented and have a place for documentation as this effort moves
forward. After looking through the wiki and chatting in IRC I have the
following proposal. All documentation in the uPortal 3 space related to
the uPortal 3 sandbox code would be consolidated and moved under a
uP3-Sandbox page then the uPortal 3 space would be used for
documentation of the goals of this effort and documentation of changes
as they happen. I'd like to get other thoughts and suggestions as to how
to deal with the wiki documentation as well.
I think it makes a lot of sense to distinguish between our new,
evolutionary approach to uPortal 3 and the older branch of it,
especially in the wiki.
One very minor comment I'd make is that the term "uP3-Sandbox" might not
be clear enough for newcomers to the community to recognize the
difference between the old "sandbox" version and the current version.
Given that the architecture is so different, it's worth making the
distinction obvious. On the other hand, I don't have any brilliant
naming suggestions. :)
Again, nice work!
Colin
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org
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