On 6 Mar 2013, at 15:15, Andrew Kenney wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > There's an open JIRA issue for the maven bundle plugin that would be very > useful to have in the new release. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-974?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel > > I did some investigation into using OBR last October, but concluded that it > was not very useful if the maven bundle plugin couldn't place my project's > dependencies into my OBR repo, along with the project's artifact. > I've tried to use the proposed setting with the latest plugin, but it didn't > work. > <addDependenciesToRepository>true</addDependenciesToRepository> > > Do you think this feature would be possible to add? > > In my opinion, OBR has some deficiencies... but if the maven bundle plugin > had this capability, it overcomes a majority of OBRs problems. OBR is pretty > useless if repository maintenance isn't automated.
I'll take a look as part of the ongoing bug triage - btw, if anyone else is interested in this feature (or any others) you can vote for it on JIRA. > Thanks for your consideration, > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart McCulloch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:26 PM > To: dev > Subject: [DISCUSS] rename maven-bundle-plugin to bnd-maven-plugin > > Hi folks, > > Now that we've got a 2.x version of bndlib in Maven Central > (http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Cbiz.aQute%7Cbndlib%7C2.0.0.20130123-133441%7Cjar > - same level as shipped in bndtools 2) I'm looking to sort out a new release > of the maven-bundle-plugin, once I've gone through and triaged the pending > issues in JIRA. > > I also figure that now might be the best time to "fix" the plugin name > according to Maven guidelines: > http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-plugin-documentation.html - > apparently the name "maven-NNN-plugin" is supposed to be reserved for plugins > hosted by Apache Maven, while plugins hosted elsewhere should use names like > "NNN-maven-plugin". > > So along with the upgrade to bndlib 2.x, I'm proposing to change the plugin > name to: > > bnd-maven-plugin > > which both respects the Maven plugin naming convention, and recognises the > bnd code which is actually doing most of the work. > > WDYT? > > -- > Cheers, Stuart > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
