Have you made any progress on this? I'd be a willing beta tester Matthew
> -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:21 AM > To: 'Maven Users List' > Subject: RE: Does maven surport to process the c or c++ project? > > > Not for the moment, but if you want to write a plugin, it's welcome. > > I'm writing one (maven-cpp-plugin). It's been... interesting. > The include files make everything fun. We've taken to > inventing a .car file (C archive) to handle dependencies. > This is just a .tar.gz file with a specific layout (libs and > includes in specific spots). > > It's been working pretty well with Win32 and Linux, though we > are still tinkering. Handling cross-platform has is own > philosophical challenges. For example, do you try to write a > single task that detects the platform and invokes the correct > compiler, or you give the control to the user through > properties and then only build if you detect you are running > on a platform that matches the compiler (that is, if the > compiler property is set to Microsoft's Visual Studio > compiler and you are running on Linux, what do you do)? So > far, we have gone with the latter strategy and skip builds > where the properties don't match the platform. > > The whole thing uses the Ant tasks for C, which are a bit > wiggy in some ways, particularly when using Win32 compilers. > > When it gets a bit more stable, I'll make it available, > probably on http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/ (where I > have commit permission, though I've not used it yet). > > Wordman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]