Sorry, guys, my ISP decided to take some time off over the holiday as
well... ;-(
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Steve Raeburn wrote:
> At the minute, I've just copied the docs over to see how it would work
> out. My opinion is "not bad, but more work required". As far as I'm
> concerned, the Maven build is still experimental and not ready for
> primetime.
>
> It might be an option to build the website from Maven in the (very) near
> future, but I think we'll need to do some restructuring before the
> library build will work with Maven. (Separate out the taglibs, web apps,
> contribs into separate sub-projects).
I've been thinking about this restructuring too (entirely outside the
Mavenisation discussion), and plan on writing up my thoughts on this
"soon". My thinking is primarily in the context of Struts 2.x, but the
principles would largely apply to 1.2.x as well.
>
> I don't think we should let the Mavenization process hold up the 1.2.0
> release. There's a lot of changes waiting to get out and I think it best
> not to combine those with a change in the build process. Hopefully, we
> can integrate it into the build as we move forward through 1.2.x.
+1, +1, and +/-0, respectively. ;-)
I have to say that I'm losing faith in Maven. When I first dabbled in it,
I thought it was super-cool because of some of the things it can do, like
generating web sites. However, once I got past the "honeymoon" period, I
started to get more and more frustrated. The lack of documentation doesn't
help, but what bugs me most is that it seems to go from really easy, when
you set things up the way it likes, to really arcane, if you don't, very
quickly. And if we have to start writing Ant tasks, well... ;-{
In any case, more power to the folks working on Mavenising Struts, but, as
Steve says, let's not let that get in the way of a 1.2.0 release.
--
Martin Cooper
>
> For maintenance purposes, the live documentation is still in docs. Don't
> bother trying to maintain xdocs yet. I hope we'll be able to translate
> the docs in place & maintain the history.
>
> I'm not sure the end is in sight yet, but I'm now more confident now
> that the end is achievable with Maven :-)
>
> Steve
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: November 29, 2003 12:31 PM
> > To: Struts Developers List
> > Subject: Re: Maven test run
> >
> >
> > David Graham wrote:
> > > You're going to delete the old versions in /doc right? We
> > certainly don't
> > > want to maintain 2 versions of our docs. It would be good
> > not to lose the
> > > cvs history on all of these in the moves to xdocs so maybe
> > we can just
> > > move the files in the filesystem on cvs.apache.org instead of just
> > > checking in brand new versions in xdocs?
> >
> > If we're ready to convert the documentation to Maven, then we
> > could just
> > point the xdoc plugin at our doc directory by setting the
> > maven.docs.src
> > property.
> >
> > http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/xdoc/properties.html
> >
> > I'm OK with doing this, but it should be a deliberate
> > decision, and we
> > should probably have an actual vote.
> >
> > Of course, there is still some work to do, and I can help
> > with that over
> > the next week. But I think the end is in sight :)
> >
> > -Ted.
> >
> >
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