Jan Wedel wrote at Dienstag, 11. August 2009 16:28: > As stated before by John, > > There is a PHP plugin. Moreover, I found a .NET plugin. For C, Fortran > and C++, the NAR plugin can be used. The maven-native-plugin indeed > seems to be discontinued and on the maven nar website, they say they > created their plugin because the maven native plugin wasn't flexible > enough. > > As far as I can say, their procedure sound very interesting. They bundle > Header and object files and POM in a zip file called .nar which can be > used as any Java artifact in the repository. > > Thats the theory. But I'd like to hear anybody who really used it, > because most often, it's the small things that matter the most meaning > that some small issues / missing features could have a drastic influence > on the whole project workflow/ building process.
We use the nar plugin for building ordinary DLLs (used as extension for some Windows app) as well as for JNI DLLs. Basically it works fine once you get used to its quirks. Main problem with the nar plugin is that it is nearly not supported - you cannot ask questions, you have to find out anything yourself. There's no mailing list and the forum is full of questions without a lot answers and patches pile in their JIRA. Jason once stated that Mark wanted to move the nar-plugin directly into Maven land, but that's been posted already again some months ago. Mark recently stated here on the list that he's currently busy with other things. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
