Hi all, Let me give the main reasons why I made this proposition: - Right now the project is quite difficult to setup in other IDEs than Netbeans (IntelliJ IDEA user here). Maven benefits of a great integration with most IDEs, so it makes it easier for developers to get started. - The Java libraries are checked in version control, which makes it very heavy. Maven pulls dependencies from repositories. - The packaging and distribution of assemblies is easy, we can easily package an assembly for Windows, Linux, for development, etc. through descriptor files. - The modularisation could be improved, for example it seems to me that subpackages in org.syncany.connection.plugins should be packaged in different Jars ? - Also, Maven can handle the release process (doing a VCS tag, generating the release artifacts, bump version numbers, etc), but it's not mandatory.
@Jason: We don't really need a repo, I took a quick look and here is the list of dependencies in libs/** that I could not find in Maven central repository: * AbsoluteLayout * AppFramework * eclipselink * eclipselink-javax.persistence * jpathwatch * gdata-* * j2ssh These few jars could just stay checked in version control. Julien 2011/6/13 [email protected] <[email protected]> > Maven is quite a treat. A lot of people are using it these days and has > great advantages. I am not a maven expert by any means, but I can tell you > that the nicest thing about it is that you describe a project and it's > dependanices in an xml file so that when you build it all the dependancies > are pulled from your nexus repo, which is just a smart-ish binary repo. > Also, when your project builds successfully your artifacts can be stored in > your repo as snapshots so that others can use them. > > The main idea of maven is that when a developer pulls the source there's no > guesswork as to how to build and deploy the project, it's all done with > maven. In doing so, the project has to adhere to certain standards, namely > how the files and folders are laid out which is defined in a maven archetype > and can even be changed if you want. > > This is why I asked if there was some sort of 'public' repo we could use, > since we're an open source project, because to take full advantage of maven > one needs a nexus repo, and I don't have one handy :) > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Philipp Heckel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have no experience with Maven or Ant. Are there any significant >> advantages in using Maven? Ant sort of integrated with Netbeans at the >> moment ... >> >> If there are none, I think I agree with what Jason (nocans) says :-) >> >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Aside from the work of rearranging files and folders to match an >> archetype, >> > I don't think it would be of a great benefit unless the project had its >> own >> > nexus server. >> > Is there some sort of free nexus server resource for open source >> projects ? >> > >> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Julien Nicoulaud >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Just wanted to know, are you interested in Maven-inizing the project ? >> I >> >> can do this. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Julien >> >> -- >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> >> Post to : [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > >
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