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[Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice, I will start working on it in this branch:
https://code.launchpad.net/~julien-nicoulaud/syncany/maven
I will let you know when it's ready for testing.

2011/6/13 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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