On Wednesday 28 April 2004 05:16, Justin Permar wrote: > I'm wondering if I can get binary version of the avalon api > and merlin implementation, and just use those w/o any > dependencies on maven or the avalon repository. Is such a > thing possible? > The problem really is that maven isn't nearly as > widely-supported as ant (other libraries provide ant tasks but > not maven goals). I'd like to use just ant for our build, but > also use avalon/merlin.
At the moment, there is a distinction between building Merlin from source, and using Merlin in your own projects. For building Merlin, i.e. being a Avalon committer, Maven is more or less a requirement and very difficult to be without. For being a Merlin User, things are slightly different. Maven can help you manage for Jars, even if you are only using it on a local network without remote access, but it is not an absolute requirement. The .xinfo generation (Meta Plugin) is 'at the bottom' an Ant task and can be used from Ant without problem. Furthermore, Andreas is working hard to get MerlinDeveloper (codename) up to releasable state, in which case Eclipse would be your primary interface, and at some point no command-line tools required, only optional for batch and unattended builds. http://avalon.apache.org/meta/tools/ant.html for more details on the Merlin Meta generation Ant task. http://maven.apache.org/reference/project-descriptor.html for more details on how to setup the network infrastructure for Maven. http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#Behavioural_Properties for properties to be setup, if you want to use a completely local setup. maven.repo.remote is the particular property for downloading. Cheers Niclas -- +---------//-------------------+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +------//----------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
