I've updated the pull request.

Hope this helps.

Sébastien

2012/12/3 Adam Murdoch <[email protected]>

>
> On 03/12/2012, at 2:38 AM, Sébastien Cogneau wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm agree, it would be better to rename the plug-in to
> 'jvm-library-distribution'.
> Do you want me to modify the pull-request ?
>
>
> Yes, please.
>
>
> I'm really interested in working on the next steps , is it possible ?
>
>
> Absolutely. That would be excellent.
>
> If yes, how do you want to proceed ?
>
>
> I think we should continue with the plan below. Step #1 overlaps quite a
> bit with the publishing stuff we're currently doing for the 1.4 release,
> and it might be tricky to coordinate things. We might skip to step #2
> instead.
>
> I'll update the spec soon.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sébastien.
>
>
> 2012/11/29 Adam Murdoch <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a pull request queued up that adds a 'java-library' plugin:
>> https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/101
>>
>> The idea behind this plugin that it will build a distribution zip or tgz
>> for a jvm based library, which you can use for distributing the library,
>> generally as an alternative or complement to publishing the library to a
>> repository somewhere.
>>
>> We've held off applying this pull request while we sorted out some of the
>> new publication stuff. I think we're now ready to add this plugin.
>>
>> One issue is that the plugin id 'java-library' is a bit too general for
>> what this plugin does, and we want to use 'java-library' for other purposes
>> (see below), so I would propose renaming it to something like
>> 'jvm-library-distribution' to reflect what it does.
>>
>> Then, once added, we can (incrementally, of course):
>>
>> 1. Add a 'java-library' plugin that declares that the project produces a
>> Java library. This would be an opinionated plugin that defines a main Java
>> library component. It would publish the component. There will be a base
>> plugin that adds the capability for building Jvm library components.
>> 2. Extract a 'distribution' plugin out of the 'jvm-library-distribution'
>> and 'application' plugins. This would be an opinionated plugin that defines
>> a single distribution which contains all library and application components
>> that the project produces. It would also publish the distribution. There
>> will be a base plugin that adds the capability for building distributions
>> from components.
>> 3. Deprecate and remove the 'jvm-library-distribution' plugin. You'd use
>> the 'java-library' and 'distribution' plugins together instead.
>> 4. Extract a 'java-application' plugin out of the 'application' plugin.
>> This would be an opinionated plugin that defines a main Java application
>> component. It would publish the component. There will be a base plugin that
>> adds the capability for building Jvm application components.
>> 5. Deprecate and remove the 'application' plugin. You'd use the
>> 'java-application' and 'distribution' plugins together instead.
>> 6. Change the c++ plugins to define library and application components
>> for the libraries and executables it creates. You could then use the
>> 'distribution' plugin to bundle these things into a distribution.
>>
>> Then we can do all kinds of interesting things:
>> 7. Add plugins to offer additional ways to package Java application
>> components: executable fat jar, native executable, .app bundle, etc.
>> 8. Add an 'rpm' plugin that uses the meta-data for the library and
>> application components to generate rpms for those components.
>> 9. Add a 'java-daemon' plugin that can take a jvm application component
>> and package it as a daemon/service.
>>
>> So, net result is:
>>
>> apply plugin: 'java-library'
>> apply plugin: 'distribution'
>>
>> Running 'gradle assemble' will build a .zip and .tgz containing the
>> library Jar, the API documentation, the jars for the runtime dependencies,
>> etc.
>>
>> apply plugin: 'cpp-lib'
>> apply plugin: 'distribution'
>>
>> Running 'gradle assemble' will build a .zip and .tgz containing all
>> variants of the native library, plus the API docs, etc (or perhaps it
>> builds a zip/tgz per variant).
>>
>> apply plugin: 'scala-library'
>> apply plugin: 'distribution'
>>
>> Running 'gradle assemble' will build a .zip and .tgz containing all
>> variants of the library Jar, the API docs, the jars for runtime
>> dependencies for each variant, etc.
>>
>> Step #1 we need to do soon, to make progress on the publishing DSL. The
>> other steps can happen whenever. I think we should apply the pull request
>> as is, rename the plugin, and then do the remaining steps in the master
>> branch.
>>
>>
>>  --
>> Adam Murdoch
>> Gradle Co-founder
>> http://www.gradle.org
>> VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting
>> http://www.gradleware.com
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Adam Murdoch
> Gradle Co-founder
> http://www.gradle.org
> VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting
> http://www.gradleware.com
>
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