Hi all,

Replying back with defunct email addresses purged, so that any future
replies don't keep receiving bounces.

-Curtis


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Curtis Rueden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings maven-nar-plugin hackers!
>
> I am writing to gauge interest in a unified implementation of
> maven-nar-plugin. It seems there are several active (and not-so-active)
> forks. It seems the original implementation (@duns) is no longer active,
> but both @GregDomjan and @richardkerr have active forks (the latter forked
> from the former), and merge improvements from other forks too.
>
> Before we were aware of this, my colleague (Johannes Schindelin) & I
> started another fork (@scijava) to address some issues we had. which have
> since been merged into the @GregDomjan fork (although I could not find a
> cherry-picked commit... it must have been done in some non-standard way?).
>
> I would be happy to deprecate the @scijava fork in favor of the
> @GregDomjan code, if we can agree to standardize on one officially
> maintained repository. If we do go that route, it should not be too
> difficult to start releasing versions to Maven Central. Can all agree to
> start submitting PRs to Greg for any future patches, rather than silently
> maintaining our own forks? Greg, what do you think? Others?
>
> Apache/Sonatype/Codehaus developers: It appears that there was once a push
> for Apache to adopt maven-nar-plugin as a core plugin. Is that effort
> abandoned now? Is a unified GitHub project the best way forward for
> maven-nar-plugin? Or would it make more sense for one of the big Maven
> umbrella groups to adopt it instead?
>
> Thanks,
> Curtis
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Martin Eisengardt <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The author (@duns) seems to be not actve any more. However I failed
>> contacting him for a while.
>>
>>  https://github.com/GregDomjan/maven-nar-plugin
>> And there is a second one being active:
>> https://github.com/richardkerr/maven-nar-plugin (do not know how to
>> contact this guy)
>>
>> However both try to merge the forks being around. And they like any kind
>> of help. If there are some people around that want to give it a new try
>> that would be nice.
>> I guess the original plugin was some kind of sandbox @ sonatype. I do not
>> know if we should simply group up some people that officially will maintain
>> it and I do not know if even sonatype or others are interested.
>>
>> However for being pragmatic I would say to choose one of the active
>> forks, grouping a new team and granting commit rights to the people that
>> want to maintain it.
>> I am able to provide both, a repository and a hudson as long as this is
>> not moved to maven central.
>>
>> However I am personally focused on compiling php/php-extensions and using
>> maven-nar-plugin to access them with maven. Multi-Platform compiles/
>> Cross-Platform compiles
>> I will come back to the project as soon as our build server knows how to
>> do cross compiles for various platforms.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Curtis Rueden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>>
>>>> There is a problem with the [maven-nar-plugin] project because there
>>>> are tens of orks on github. If you have any questions about it please ask.
>>>> I have contact to one of the ative authors and we try to merge all the
>>>> forks.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am guilty of one of those forks. We submitted a PR (
>>> https://github.com/duns/maven-nar-plugin/pull/5) but never heard back,
>>> so we had no choice.
>>>
>>> It looks like the canonical version at duns/maven-nar-plugin has not
>>> been updated for nearly two years. Is that going to change? It would be
>>> great for this very valuable plugin to be maintained!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Curtis
>>>
>>
>

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