On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:12 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>> ant elder wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ant elder wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually I would wonder what is the point of using maven to generate
>>>>>>> an ant script that does exactly the same as the maven build.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In 1.x the ant scripts were provided as an alternative to maven that
>>>>>>> use local artifacts from the binary distro instead of depending on
>>>>>>> remote repositories.
>>>>>
>>>>> I meant to add, if working offline using local artifacts is
>>>>> useful/important then i wonder if that should also be possible with
>>>>> the Maven builds in the binary distribution. It might be nice if both
>>>>> the Ant and Maven builds could both work offline using the
>>>>> distribution artifacts, which would probably mean having the jars in
>>>>> the hierarchical directory structure that maven uses and having the
>>>>> Tuscany standalone runtimes work with that. At least that would then
>>>>> have the jars in a fairly common and understandable structure.
>>>>>
>>>>> ...ant
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> From this I presume you mean having these jars under the Tuscany
>>>> installation directory rather than in the user's local maven repo.
>>>>
>>>> This seems like a good idea as it's first step to creating a more
>>>> embeddable Tuscany runtime installation.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to do that? It sounds like something someone else
>>> must have wanted to do before, i guess with the assmbly plugin you
>>> must be able to find the local repo and include that in a
>>> distribution?
>>>
>>> ...ant
>>>
>>>
>> I think the main problem comes when the user wants to use maven to load
>> jars from some place on the file system other than the local maven repo.
>> I spent a bit of time a few months ago looking for a way to do that,
>> but I didn't find one.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>
> I've now spent a bit of time trying to do this too without much
> success with any automated way. You'd think you should be able to use
> the assembly plugin and copy files from somewhere like
> ${maven.repo.local} but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any
> other ideas ?
>
> ...ant
>
What was the process you were hoping to follow Ant? It sounds like:
1/ build the Tuscany source to popular .m2/respository
2/ create a distribution which packages .m2/resposityr maintaining the
same structure
3/ install the distribution with the packages respository intact
4/ run mvn but point it at the repository installed from the distribution
is that close?
Simon
--
Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org
Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
