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On 03/27/2011 08:09 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: |
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> These days I'm trying to figure out and list the requirements for the |
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> project. The idea page only contain a brief description. I'd very much |
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> appreciate if anyone can give some further information regarding this |
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> idea. I'm little depressed with lesser support because Google Summer |
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> of Code is time-constrained which means I have to do a good initial |
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> research and submit a proposal in a 1 1/2 weeks time. I guess it's |
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> probably because of weekends? |
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As much as GSoC is time-constrained so are our personal lives. Some |
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delays come with the territory of volunteer work. For the basic goal of |
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the project we would like to be able to natively use Maven in Java |
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packages in the main tree. Currently we for example use the ant:ant |
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target to generate build.xml and then sanitize that. As we would like |
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these ebuilds to be dependencies for others an ebuild generator like |
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proposed by Brian doesn't cut it alone. A generator could of course be |
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useful in the process of generating ebuilds that are good enough to be |
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committed to Portage. I think both Fedora and Debian have already been |
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able to accomplish this so I would do some research into their |
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solutions. Here's some quick Google results to get you started: |
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http://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenBuilder |
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java#maven2 |
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If you want to have an online discussion or ask any questions you might |
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have interactively you can find the Java developers at |
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#gentoo-java@freenode. Please note that depending on how time zones |
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match we might not always be around. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |