[jsword-devel] Maven

[DM Smith]

Based on your and Andy's thoughts, I'll give it (Maven 2) a go, but on a 
local copy. I'll report back here.

Some observations about Maven: it wants a particular directory structure 
and it has the notion of sub-projects. Our directory structure is close 
though and we have implemented sub-projects as independent projects.

What I liked so far is that it supports building via ant without using 
Maven. A plus if we can't install maven on the crosswire box. Also, it 
can generate project files for Eclipse and Idea, perhaps others.

But I think that we should go to SVN first as it will preserve history 
when moving files and directories.

Joe Walker wrote:
>
> I'm thought Maven would be great for jsword on a number of occasions.
> Our big problem has always been resolving complex inter-project 
> dependencies, and that the thing that Maven does better than Ant. I think.
>
> I looked at Maven 1 a while ago, and found it too restrictive, but 
> many people believe that Maven2 has it nailed.
>
> Joe
>
> On 1/15/06, *DM Smith* < dmsmith555 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     In working on the installer, I have encountered a problem that our
>     ant
>     build tries to do too much. I need a simple build file that builds the
>     source from a jsword-*-src.tar.gz.
>
>     I decided to look at Maven to see if it would provide any help. Looks
>     promising. Does any one have any experience with Maven, especially
>     with
>     in an Eclipse context? Any thoughts?
>
>
>
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