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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasunbg@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 24 May 2011, at 14:37, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 05/23/2011 07:52 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: |
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>>>> maven-bin 2.x support continues to work through the binary package? |
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>>> Yes, we can keep supporting maven-bin 2.x for maven users. Though the |
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>>> packagers of projects based on maven won't be able to use the support |
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>>> for maven 2.x if we start with 3.x.This project's focus is more |
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>>> towards packagers, right? I think Serkan or people who are more |
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>>> familiar with this can give an exact answer. |
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>> So are you discussing which version of Maven to build from source or |
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>> which version to target ebuild infrastructure for? Those two don't |
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>> necessarily need to be the same and your topic implied the former but |
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>> the above talks about the latter. |
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> Well, mainly this project is inclined towards packagers. |
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> But of course the users are targeted too. Currently, users have the |
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> maven-bin too |
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> which means they have a choice in hand. The problem with Maven 3 is |
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> that some important plugins for users are not |
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> supported yet. |
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AIUI the situation is more complex than that |
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maven seems to be moving towards requiring specific core versions for |
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builds. some projects i develop require maven 2, some maven 3. i |
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manage this situation with a set of custom scripts and installations |
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independent of gentoo. i expect other developers now work in a similar |
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way. (same goes for jdks.) the gentoo java stuff just gets in my way |
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now for development. |
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FWIW one unresolved challenge for linux distributions with the rise of |
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bytecode languages (such as Java) is that compressed bytecodes are not |
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binaries in the usual sense (platform dependent machine executable |
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machine code). i know that it's a hard thing for the linux community |
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to hear but it's about time that the community acknowledged that these |
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languages are now mainstream and stop trying to force them into a |
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inappropriate provisioning model. |
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Robert |