Re: [gentoo-soc] [GSoC] Maven integration for Gentoo ebuilds

[Brian Dolbec]

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 23:50 +0530, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote:
> Hi Petteri and devs,
> I'm Kasun Gajasinghe, a final year undergraduate from University of
> Moratuwa. I'm interested in contributing to Gentoo under Google Summer
> of Code 2011 program.
>
>
> I've gone through the ideas page, and found the project idea "Maven
> integration" [0] very interesting, mainly because I have a good
> background on that area. I've gone through "Quickstart Ebuild
> Guide" [1] to understand how ebuilding works, and then went through
> Gentoo java-overlay [2] since it's a suggested approach. It's exciting
> to see that they are looking for new Java developers! I have already
> checked out the java-overlay source, and started poking around.
>
>
> As I understood, the main goal of the project is generating an ebuild
> file by parsing maven project file (POM), right? If so, I think it's
> better if I looked at how the current maven-based projects are
> integrated to Gentoo.

disclaimer: I know nothing of maven, but...

hmm, this sounds a lot like it could make use of g-common from last
years gsoc.   G-common is a universal overlay/ebuild generator for
converting one packaging system into gentoo's by using drivers for the
format being scanned.  I have added g-common repository type into
layman-9999.  Currently g-common and the g-cran driver is in the science
overlay as app-portage/g-cran. 

For more info contact bicatali (project mentor) and/or Auke Booij
<auke@××××××.com> the student creator for more detail about it.


> Further, I'd very much appreciate if you can provide me some
> directives and guide me. Specially, I'm looking for
> documentation/articles explaining how Maven is currently used in the
> system, current status of Maven in java-overlay, and documentation to
> understand how Gentoo Java-Overlay works. Please tell me if I missed
> something important.


-- 
Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com>