Adam, I work on the struts project here at apache, but I am getting pretty good with maven ;)
I'd like to help you guys port to maven... I don't use exist, but came across it recently and was very interested. If you don't mind, I'll start perusing the source and send you questions off-list. Is there a developers mailing list for eXist? -Wes On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Adam Retter <adam.ret...@landmark.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi there I am one of the eXist developers. > > We certainly are interested in what our users want, but as yet we have > only had 2 or 3 express an interest in using Maven it is unfortunately > not a top priority for us at the present time. > > I myself am a big fan of Maven, and would love to do a port of eXist > from Ant (we are heavily invested), over to Maven. Unfortunately I just > don't have enough hours in the day at present to undertake this. > > If there is an experienced Maven developer out there that might be > interested in contributing such changes then I would certainly encourage > that. > > For the time being the solution is really to place eXist and its > dependencies into your own artifact repository (either local or server > e.g. Artifactory et al.) > > Thanks Adam. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayne Fay [mailto:wayne...@gmail.com] > Sent: 09 May 2010 19:00 > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: eXist native XML database > >> I'm working on maven project and I need to use embedded eXist > database. >> Unfortunatelly, there is only 5 years old version in repo1.maven.org. > > You need to get the eXist people to do the uploads for newer versions > of their files. If enough eXist users and developers care about Maven, > they will do it. > >> how could I tell maven developers to add required packages to the >> repository? > > You don't. If you can't get the eXist folks to get it done, you will > need to (less ideally) manually install them into your own local repo > cache on each machine that will build your project or (more ideally) > install something like Nexus, Archiva, Artifactory and install them > there so your coworkers can use the artifacts too. > > Wayne > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Wes Wannemacher Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc. Need Training? Struts, Spring, Maven, Tomcat... Ask me for a quote! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
