FYI, in the meantime you can run the maven-install Ant target on the source 
distribution. That will build and install the Pivot libraries in your local 
Maven repo.

On Jun 21, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Michael Allman wrote:

> Sandro,
> 
> Are you or anyone to the best of your knowledge working on putting the Pivot 
> 1.5 release into the maven repo?  There seems to be some arcane process for 
> doing so.  It would be super.  I don't use Maven but I do use Ivy.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Sandro Martini wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi to all,
>> some time ago we had some discussions about moving Pivot builds to Maven.
>> Last year I had a prototype of this, but was rejected because we have not
>> seen enough advantages, for many reasons (many are reported here by Dirk),
>> so Ant is enough (Pivot doesn't have external dependencies, many tests are
>> user-driven tests, etc).
>> 
>> But ... this doesn't mean that we aren't maven-compatible.
>> We've done some work to publish pivot artifacts to the central Maven
>> repository (starting for 1.4), and for the 1.5 we are improving this, for
>> example take a look at PIVOT-383 (
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-383 ) , I've attached a patch
>> for our build.xml to generate pivot sources artifacts compatible with maven,
>> and I'm waiting for other developers (I think Todd in this case) to validate
>> this and complete the task modifying the script for deploying them to the
>> central repository.
>> And other small improvements for problems I've found working on simple
>> projects done via maven ...
>> 
>> I understand that this is not a full-y mavenized approach, but I think it's
>> a start.
>> And last, in next weeks I'll publish some simple examples (but outside
>> trunk), many of them mavenized.
>> 
>> So, anyone interested to collaborate with us is welcome.
>> 
>> Last: Dirk, many thanks for your help (suggestions, fixes, etc) ...
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Sandro
>> 
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