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Hello everyone, |
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The goal of this project is to be easily able to write ebuilds for |
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upstream projects that use Apache Maven as the build system. The Maven |
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integration allows to natively use Apache Maven in Java packages in |
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the main tree. The current system work around the support for Maven |
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projects by transforming them to Ant. It generates build.xml via “mvn |
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ant:ant” command and sanitizes that. This conversion too has some |
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problems and needs to fixed. With this project, developers gains the |
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ability to use native Maven support for writing ebuilds and will get |
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full support for using maven-to-ant feature. |
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Progress: |
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* The development is carried out at the gsoc-maven-overlay at [0] |
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* The first step of this project is to bump all the maven related |
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ebuilds. Current ebuilds are around 3 years old. There are about 40 |
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ebuilds to bump, so it'll be a little lengthy process. |
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* Decided to go ahead with Maven 2.x (the latest release is |
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2.2.1) see [1] for the discussion. |
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* All the ebuilds related to "maven || wagon || plexus || doxia" |
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needs to be bumped. |
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* I was trying to bump the plexus-server. It has been a quite a |
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process since some dependencies isn't available anymore. |
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* Then it turned out that plexus-server is only used by wagon-ftp |
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ebuild. Wagon-ftp needs plexus-ftp which is a sub-project of |
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plexus-server. So, I've been trying to write a new ebuild for the |
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plexus-ftp. |
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* I've wrote the ebuild, but still needs some work to get it into |
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work. There's some issues with pom rewriting. Either the pom file |
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contains some issues or javatoolkit/maven-helper.py-2.6, the script |
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for pom rewriting contains a bug. |
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* Fixed an issue in the java-maven-2.eclass which caused the |
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build maven-base-poms ebuild to fail. |
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* Got [3] setup to temporily host some source tarballs. |
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Next: |
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* Getting the plexus-ftp and wagon-ftp ebuilds to work. This |
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process goes through fixing all the DEPEND which will take some time. |
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Once the this got to work, bumping the rest of the ebuilds is just an |
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iterative (and exhausting ;) ) process. |
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* Need to fix the java-maven-2.eclass for the bugs and errors |
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during the course of the bumping process. |
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* The ultimate goal is to get building maven from source fully |
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working/bootstrapping maven. |
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Questions: |
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* Need to figure out what DEPENDs should be included for maven |
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based ebuilds. Does all the artifacts in the <dependencies> in the POM |
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needed to be included? |
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* In addition to patching build.xml generated from `mvn ant:ant`, |
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Is there any other changes needs to be done to the source? |
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[0] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/log/gsoc-maven-overlay |
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[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/2161 |
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[2] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~kasun/ |
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Thanks, |
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--Kasun |
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~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ |
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Kasun Gajasinghe, |
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University of Moratuwa, |
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Sri Lanka. |
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Blog: http://kasunbg.blogspot.com |
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg |
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