On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:27, Brett Porter wrote:
> > All the plugins are in ../maven-plugins and the location 
> > specified is control in the project.properties in the core 
> > Maven build.
> 
> I know - I'm trying to find out where Jorg has something screwy because it
> works for everyone else.
> 
> > 
> > > You are only attempting to build with these plugins:
> > >   [exec] Maven Eclipse Plug-in
> > >      [exec] Maven Genapp Plugin
> > >      [exec] Maven JBuilder Plug-in
> > >      [exec] Maven WAR Plugin
> > 
> > What is this supposed to signify?
> 
> These are the only plugins he is attempting to build, meaning maven-plugins
> is incomplete or build/project.properties is excluding the rest.
> 
> > 
> > > Looks like moving the bootstrap-required plugins out of the 
> > core was 
> > > not such a great idea...
> > 
> > Sure it was, doesn't matter where they are. I think these are 
> > the expected road bumps in moving them as they need to be 
> > separated and is the only way we'll flush out all the little 
> > quirks in the build.
> 
> Except that there are two setup steps now instead of one. 

Sorry I'm missing something, what are the two setups?

> What if the
> bootstrap were to checkout from CVS the required plugins to build itself,
> then build the rest from the given location (including rebuilding the core)?
> Although that would be a pain offline.

No, as part of the bootstrap you have to check out modules. It really
isn't that arduous a task and it is the bootstrap.

> 
> Are we expecting a maven source distribution to require a binary
> distribution to build itself, or do we make them download 2 distros (core
> and plugins) + ant?

A Maven source distribution? Why do we need that? 

People can either bootstrap using whatever we tell them to do or use the
binaries we build. We've never made a source distribution I don't see
why we would start now.

> Cheers,
> Brett
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Jason van Zyl
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and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
  
  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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