I understand. I still think it might be a good idea to at least add
plugins into the dependency JAR. Perhaps it could be distributed as a
different file, for example with a name like nutch-1.5-including-plugins.
I would be very happy to help, but perhaps later, due to time problems.
Best,
Emre
On 07/16/2012 04:46 PM, Julien Nioche wrote:
Also, is it possible for you to distribute default Nutch plugins as a
Maven dependency jar?
Not without a major change to the way plugins are loaded I expect but this
would be a nice thing to do. Contributions and patches are welcome as usual.
Nutch 1.5 is unusable for its standard use case if its default plugins are
not included, which defeats the purpose of Maven, no?
The standard way of using Nutch is to build it from source or use the
binary release. Note that we do not use Maven for building Nutch but
ANT+Ivy. There is a JIRA issue for building with ANT+Maven.
The purpose of publishing the Nutch artefacts with Maven is that you can
for instance read the Nutch datastructures in an external project (e.g.
Behemoth).
Julien
