Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-02 Thread Rhys Ulerich
Hi Christian, I'm taking a stab at getting an Ant- and/or Maven-based development build going following either https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/maven.html or https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/ant.html. I'm rusty with Ant, a noob at Maven, and I'm hitting some trouble. I noti

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, On 3 Jan 2014, at 4:42, Rhys Ulerich wrote: I noticed there's a large block of dependencies in pom.xml that you commented out in r1414037 (svn diff -c 1414037) but that the pom.xml changes don't jive with the commit message (svn log -r 1414037) or the patch attached to LOGCXX-404. Do you r

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Christian Grobmeier, am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014 um 11:36 schrieben Sie: > The question actually is: what is the best way to build a multi-platform > C++ project of that kind? I have no experience, we do C++ and use log4cxx on Windows and with Embarcaderos C++ Builder only. PCRE e.g. use

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On 3 Jan 2014, at 11:55, Thorsten Schöning wrote: Guten Tag Christian Grobmeier, am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014 um 11:36 schrieben Sie: The question actually is: what is the best way to build a multi-platform C++ project of that kind? I have no experience, we do C++ and use log4cxx on Windows a

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Rhys Ulerich
> I tend to believe that we should start to build log4cxx with Ant. My feeling is that > Maven was using Ant to build it. If the Ant stuff works, we could renenable the Maven build for it, > or leave it out. Ah, sorry for crying wolf. I had hit a classpath issue with the cpptasks JAR. I didn't rec

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Roland Uuesoo
Hi everybody! Just wanted to mention that... GNU autotools based build should remain workable. I have used log4cxx with autotools for 3 years at least. Last year it was added to buildroot project which uses autotools also. http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=6ebb930b694e97e5cf85a72495

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Rhys Ulerich
Hi Roland, > Just wanted to mention that... GNU autotools based build should remain > workable. Thanks for speaking up. I definitely plan to keep the Autotools alive and well. I've been worrying about Ant/Maven since they're what permits cross-platform. I personally plan to develop against Aut

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Alexandru Zbarcea
Hi Roland, You may find these commits useful: https://github.com/azbarcea/log4cxx/pull/1/files These commits I remember Christian pushed them in the main/trunk. The first, is similar to yours. As a rule of thumb, we should not keep in the repo, generated files, even if they are .h files. You end

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Alexandru Zbarcea
Hi Rhys, Is there a ticket for this? I'd like to help. autotools ant maven +1 Regards, Alex On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > Hi Roland, > > > Just wanted to mention that... GNU autotools based build should remain > > workable. > > Thanks for speaking up. I definitely p

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Rhys Ulerich
> Is there a ticket for this? I'd like to help. > > autotools > ant > maven Offhand, not that I'm aware of. At least by 0.12.0, I'd planned to take a pass through JIRA for tickets like LOG4CXX-385 (which Roland mentioned) to make Autotools happy again out-of-the-box. That particular issue is sim

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On 3 Jan 2014, at 15:26, Rhys Ulerich wrote: I tend to believe that we should start to build log4cxx with Ant. My feeling is that Maven was using Ant to build it. If the Ant stuff works, we could renenable the Maven build for it, or leave it out. Ah, sorry for crying wolf. I had hit a clas

Re: Question re: pom.xml comment block in r1414037

2014-01-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On 3 Jan 2014, at 18:31, Rhys Ulerich wrote: Is there a ticket for this? I'd like to help. autotools ant maven Offhand, not that I'm aware of. Just saying: I found creating a ticket for each "change" pretty helpful when generating release notes. Cheers At least by 0.12.0, I'd planned