On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:36:43 -0500, Mark R. Diggory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
True, true. That is another option. Maybe theres others. I can imagine generating other OS specific package installers too. (RPM, bin, XPI, sh, InstallSheild, msi ...). A plugin or series of plugins devoted to building such installers using maven and its repository resources.
-Mark
There are several such plugins on the maven-plguins.sf.net site:
* http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-runtime-builder-plugin * http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-deb-plugin * http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-rpm-plugin
The runtime plugin builds a runtime consisting of a lib catalog witha all dependencies and .bat and .sh shell wrappers.
It's a very bad idea, in my opinion, if it completely circumvents the native OS packaging with respect to resolving dependencies. There is a ton of reasons why the packager of a dependency for an OS can make a more suited component to depend on than the generic jar file downloaded off ibiblio.org/maven. Security, OS-specific patches, configuration file locations, handling of multiple runtimes, ...
cheers, dalibor topic
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