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["nocans@xxxxxxxxx" <nocans@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm all for it, and it sounds a nice opportunity to learn more about maven.

I will see what I can do about us having a repo so we can have cake and eat
it!


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Julien Nicoulaud <
julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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