On 01/07/2015 04:50 PM, sebb wrote: > On 7 January 2015 at 13:59, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: >>>> [...] >>> >>> >>> I have pushed the change to the userguide. To execute the example you do >>> the following: >>> >>> * go to commons-math folder, type mvn clean install >>> this step is only needed if your local maven repository does not yet >>> contain the latest commons-math snapshot >>> * go to userguide folder (src/userguide), type mvn clean package >>> * now you can run the examples like that: >>> >>> java -cp target/commons-math3-examples-uber-3.5-SNAPSHOT.jar >>> org.apache.commons.math3.userguide.LowDiscrepancyGeneratorComparison >> >> >> Very nice. > > Yes, however there is a caveat. > The uber jar must not be published, at least in its current form. > - it contains un-shaded classes that have different Maven coords (=> jar hell) > - it does not have N&L files > - are the 3rd party jars AL compatible?
there is no intention to publish the uber jar. > There is another way to run the code without needing to generate the jars: > > cd src/userguide > > mvn -q exec:java > -Dexec.mainClass=org.apache.commons.math3.userguide.LowDiscrepancyGeneratorComparison nice, did not know this trick before. > This uses Maven to resolve the dependencies. > > Works very well for developer testing of examples. > However it is not so useful for end users as they would need Maven and > the Math source. > > The NET jar method works well because there are no external > dependencies, and the example jar is created in the same directory as > the core jar it depends on. > > The same approach would work for Math, but the user would have to > download the additional dependencies somehow. the approach with exec:java is good enough imho, as >90% of the users will have maven installed. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
