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[Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Let me give the main reasons why I made this proposition:
 - Right now the project is quite difficult to setup in other IDEs than
Netbeans (IntelliJ IDEA user here). Maven benefits of a great integration
with most IDEs, so it makes it easier for developers to get started.
 - The Java libraries are checked in version control, which makes it very
heavy. Maven pulls dependencies from repositories.
 - The packaging and distribution of assemblies is easy, we can easily
package an assembly for Windows, Linux, for development, etc. through
descriptor files.
 - The modularisation could be improved, for example it seems to me that
subpackages in org.syncany.connection.plugins should be packaged in
different Jars ?
 - Also, Maven can handle the release process (doing a VCS tag, generating
the release artifacts, bump version numbers, etc), but it's not mandatory.

@Jason: We don't really need a repo, I took a quick look and here is the
list of dependencies in libs/** that I could not find in Maven central
repository:
* AbsoluteLayout
* AppFramework
* eclipselink
* eclipselink-javax.persistence
* jpathwatch
* gdata-*
* j2ssh
These few jars could just stay checked in version control.

Julien

2011/6/13 nocans@xxxxxxxxx <nocans@xxxxxxxxx>

> Maven is quite a treat. A lot of people are using it these days and has
> great advantages. I am not a maven expert by any means, but I can tell you
> that the nicest thing about it is that you describe a project and it's
> dependanices in an xml file so that when you build it all the dependancies
> are pulled from your nexus repo, which is just a smart-ish binary repo.
> Also, when your project builds successfully your artifacts can be stored in
> your repo as snapshots so that others can use them.
>
> The main idea of maven is that when a developer pulls the source there's no
> guesswork as to how to build and deploy the project, it's all done with
> maven. In doing so, the project has to adhere to certain standards, namely
> how the files and folders are laid out which is defined in a maven archetype
> and can even be changed if you want.
>
> This is why I asked if there was some sort of 'public' repo we could use,
> since we're an open source project, because to take full advantage of maven
> one needs a nexus repo, and I don't have one handy :)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I have no experience with Maven or Ant. Are there any significant
>> advantages in using Maven? Ant sort of integrated with Netbeans at the
>> moment ...
>>
>> If there are none, I think I agree with what Jason (nocans) says :-)
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, nocans@xxxxxxxxx <nocans@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Aside from the work of rearranging files and folders to match an
>> archetype,
>> > I don't think it would be of a great benefit unless the project had its
>> own
>> > nexus server.
>> > Is there some sort of free nexus server resource for open source
>> projects ?
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Julien Nicoulaud
>> > <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> Just wanted to know, are you interested in Maven-inizing the project ?
>> I
>> >> can do this.
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Julien
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