Hi Dave, thanks for the tip :-) Actually we're downloading a few LGPL jars via maven-ant-tasks, but this approach seems simpler for our libs, as we won't have to deal with transitive dependencies.
br, juan pablo On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2012, at 10:38 AM, sebb wrote: > > > On 11 July 2012 22:26, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez > > <juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, my misunderstanding then. If that's the case, then there is one > >> technicality of the apache release process blocking the release > >> (distributing dependencies alongside source), although not a tough one. > >> I'll file a Jira and reflect it at the project incubation status page. > >> > >> > >> regards, > >> juan pablo > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com > >wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez > >>> <juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Regarding the binary dependencies. Wasn't the discussion on > general@more > >>>> focused on (or raised because of) transitive dependencies which were > >>>> brought into the build and not being AL-compatible? > >>> > >>> No, all the dependencies discussed were compliant with Apache > >>> policies. The problem was about having binaries included in the source > >>> archive. > >>> > >>>> Also, the build is Ant based, so we need them to be there in order to > be > >>>> able to build. > > > > Not so; Apache JMeter and Tomcat both use Ant and have external > > dependencies which are not held in SVN. > > > >>> > >>> The proposed solution for this case was to put the dependencies in a > >>> separate -deps archive, that can be combined with the source release > >>> to make it buildable. The build script can also automatically download > >>> such separate binary dependencies. > > > > That's what JMeter and Tomcat do: there's a separate Ant task to do > > the downloads. > > But you could also use Ant+Ivy. > > Apache POI uses ant as well. Here are selected parts of the build.xml: > > <!-- the repository to download jars from --> > <property name="repository.m2" value="http://repo1.maven.org"/> > <property name="main.lib" location="lib"/> > > <!-- jars in the /lib directory, see the fetch-jars target--> > <property name="main.commons-logging.jar" > location="${main.lib}/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/> > <property name="main.commons-logging.url" > > value="${repository.m2}/maven2/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/> > <property name="main.commons-codec.jar" > location="${main.lib}/commons-codec-1.5.jar"/> > <property name="main.commons-codec.url" > > value="${repository.m2}/maven2/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.5/commons-codec-1.5.jar"/> > <property name="main.log4j.jar" > location="${main.lib}/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/> > <property name="main.log4j.url" > value="${repository.m2}/maven2/log4j/log4j/1.2.13/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/> > <property name="main.junit.jar" > location="${main.lib}/junit-3.8.1.jar"/> > <property name="main.junit.url" > value="${repository.m2}/maven2/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar"/> > <property name="main.ant.jar" location="${main.lib}/ant-1.8.2.jar"/> > <property name="main.ant.url" > value="${repository.m2}/maven2/org/apache/ant/ant/1.8.2/ant-1.8.2.jar"/> > > <target name="check-jars"> > <condition property="jars.present"> > <or> > <and> > <available file="${main.commons-logging.jar}"/> > <available file="${main.commons-codec.jar}"/> > <available file="${main.log4j.jar}"/> > <available file="${main.junit.jar}"/> > <available file="${main.ant.jar}"/> > </and> > <isset property="disconnected"/> > </or> > </condition> > </target> > > <target name="fetch-jars" depends="check-jars" unless="jars.present" > description="Fetches needed JAR files from the Internet"> > <mkdir dir="${main.lib}"/> > <antcall target="downloadfile"> > <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.commons-logging.url}"/> > <param name="destfile" value="${main.commons-logging.jar}"/> > </antcall> > <antcall target="downloadfile"> > <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.commons-codec.url}"/> > <param name="destfile" value="${main.commons-codec.jar}"/> > </antcall> > <antcall target="downloadfile"> > <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.log4j.url}"/> > <param name="destfile" value="${main.log4j.jar}"/> > </antcall> > <antcall target="downloadfile"> > <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.junit.url}"/> > <param name="destfile" value="${main.junit.jar}"/> > </antcall> > <antcall target="downloadfile"> > <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.ant.url}"/> > <param name="destfile" value="${main.ant.jar}"/> > </antcall> > </target> > > HTH, > Dave > > > > > >>> > >>> BR, > >>> > >>> Jukka Zitting > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >>> > >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
