Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-12 Thread Marshall Schor
Hi Jörn, Did this error go away when you did the one-time-setup for docbkx? -Marshall On 8/11/2010 4:36 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > Looks like this error is related to this one time setup: > http://uima.apache.org/one-time-setup.html#docbkx-setup > > Jörn > > On 8/11/10 9:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann w

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-11 Thread Jörn Kottmann
Looks like this error is related to this one time setup: http://uima.apache.org/one-time-setup.html#docbkx-setup Jörn On 8/11/10 9:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: I did set up everything a while back, and now updated my workspace and tried to build it but it fails with this error: [ERROR] Faile

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-11 Thread Jörn Kottmann
I did set up everything a while back, and now updated my workspace and tried to build it but it fails with this error: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.agilejava.docbkx:docbkx-maven-plugin:2.0.10:generate-pdf (pdf) on project uima-docbook-tutorials-and-users-guides: Failed to transform tut

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-10 Thread Jaroslaw Cwiklik
I just went through the process of setting up uima build env on my new Lenovo W500. It was not as straight forward process as I would have liked but most problems were in the one time setup and related to documentation (and the fact I was initially using Helios). Luckily, Marshall was able to help

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-10 Thread Marshall Schor
Re: lowering the barriers - one-time-setups issues... Based on Adams and Thilo's responses, I have pushed a bit to get the m2eclipse / xmlbeans stuff improved. To my surprise, someone posted this morning to the Jira https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-1694 indicating that the bug migh

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Lally
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > On 8/9/2010 5:22 PM, Adam Lally wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > > > >> Please post feedback on this build process - is this a good direction, > and > >> whether or not you are able to do builds! > >> > >

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Schor
On 8/9/2010 5:22 PM, Adam Lally wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > >> Please post feedback on this build process - is this a good direction, and >> whether or not you are able to do builds! >> >> > I like some things about Maven, but the experience of using it has

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Lally
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > Please post feedback on this build process - is this a good direction, and > whether or not you are able to do builds! > > I like some things about Maven, but the experience of using it has definitely been frustrating. Any time you try to

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Schor
Thanks, Thilo, for your responses. I have just a couple of small thing to put inline below... I encourage others to post their experience(s). -Marshall On 8/9/2010 2:58 PM, Thilo Götz wrote: > Since I've been griping to Marshall about the build for the last few > months (mostly off-list), I'll

Re: Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Thilo Götz
Since I've been griping to Marshall about the build for the last few months (mostly off-list), I'll respond below. Let me start by saying that I now regret very much that we decided a few years ago to switch our build to maven. I agreed with that decision at the time. However, after many days an

Feedback requested on build approach and tooling

2010-08-09 Thread Marshall Schor
The current build tooling, now released and on maven central, seems to be working. It improves many things: * We now can use the maven-release-plugin, which enables our use of the NEXUS repository; this process is used by ~ 50 Apache projects, and we now can follow the Apache conventional way o