Tim Moloney wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
I too primarily use Maven since I think that Maven is awesome.
However, it is not nearly as pervasive as Ant and it is a bit "needy".
It needs access to the Internet, not only to get project dependencies,
but to also get all of Maven plugins, which can be quite a lot. For
those without access to the Internet, this is a problem. Granted, you
can initially build on an Internet-connect machine, then move the
local repository to the disconnected machine. However, the local
repository includes a lot of dependencies for someone who just needs
to build the software but not do development.
My hope was to use Maven to do development of a project on an
Internet-connected machine. Then, when the project is released, I
would also release the project's sources, an ant build.xml file, and
all the project's dependencies. This would be the smallest complete
set of requirements for someone to build the project from source.
This set of requirements would be much less than those required to
build the project using Maven.
Perhaps this is just too much to ask. Thanks again for the reply.
Personally, I would love this capability. That is how I would like to
Felix releases. I hate having to depend on network connectivity to have
the build work. I want our releases to be completely self-contained. So,
if this were available, we would definitely consider using it for future
Felix releases too.
-> richard
Tim Moloney
Felix Meschberger wrote:
Hi Tim,
I have none, sorry, as I stopped using ant the moment I went maven :-)
Regards
Felix
On 11/8/06, Tim Moloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No suggestions or comments?
On Monday, 30 October 2006, Tim Moloney wrote:
> Is it possible for maven-ant-plugin to generate a build.xml file that
> will create a Felix bundle?
>
> Without changing my pom.xml, I ran "mvn ant:ant: to generate a
> build.xml file. Running ant on that build.xml does create a jar file
> that installs and resolves in Felix but it certainly doesn't execute.
>
> Documentation on maven-ant-plugin is a bit slim. It just describes
> the one goal (ant:ant) with its two parameters (localRepository and
> project||).
>
> Perhaps I'm expecting too much from maven-ant-plugin?
>
> Tim Moloney
>
>
