Maven has promise for being a worthwhile tool and we all share the expectation that it will get better. I get from this thread that Wayne is frustrated with the available resources to target more feature development. Dave appears to be equially frustrated.
Perhaps the Maven team would consider adding a vote your feature with donation component to the site. That way companies and individuals may participate in a positive way toward Maven even though they may not be able to manage the time at the contributor level? Best Regards, Sean -----Original Message----- From: Dave Feltenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:28 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Question about native library path The reason the *user's* list exists is to discuss using Maven, not to lecture people about adding features that may or may not exist. If a person wants to find out if features exist, or has a question about usage, they should not be lectured about adding the features themselves. A simple, "I don't think this feature exists" suffices. I am -- and I'm sure the vast majority of others are -- quite aware that this is an open source project and I can contribute, but during the normal course of a work day my employer pays me to make software for them, not drain resources to modify open source projects that are designed to support our infrastructure. When I ask questions on OS project lists, I try to contribute by answering a question or two that I'm able to answer, as adding features to the projects is simply not something I'm able to rationalize to my employers. On Nov 2, 2007 4:22 PM, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any time, Dave! Some people simply need a little nudge in the right > direction. > > It seems like a lot of people on this list either don't realize or > forget that Maven is Open Source Software. You're a developer, right?? > If you want a feature and it isn't obviously available, go write some > code!! Maven plugins are (generally) trivial to modify or even create > from scratch to deal with a particular issue. > > The only way that Maven gets any better is by the contributions of > people (like yourself) -- some in the core dev team and others who are > simply motivated users who want to get their work done. > > In the (short) amount of time we've spent discussing this issue, you > could have already written and tested your addition to the Eclipse > plugin, and you'd be on dealing with the next issue in your project. > > > Wayne > > On 11/2/07, Dave Feltenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for pointing out that if a feature doesn't exist I'm free > > to add the necessary features myself, Wayne. > > > > On Nov 2, 2007 2:16 PM, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Its possible this functionality is not currently available. Take a > > > look at the source code, add in your needed features, and > > > contribute it back for future inclusion in the next release of the > > > Eclipse plugin. > > > > > > Wayne > > > > > > > > > On 11/2/07, Dave Feltenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > Does anybody know if it's possible (and if so, how) to add the > > > > native library location to a classpath entry? Specifically the > > > > Eclipse .project classpath attribute > > > > "org.eclipse.jdt.launching.CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY". > > > > I'd like to have some dlls in my library path without having to > > > > add additional JVM arguments everytime I create a launcher (and > > > > without having to specify it JVM-wide or something). The > > > > closest thing I could find in the project documentation was > > > > "classpathContainers", but that's not exactly it. Here's an > > > > example of what I'd want the end result to be: > > > > > > > > <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" > > > > path="M2_REPO/org/ecliplse/swt/swt/3.323/swt.jar"> > > > > <attributes> > > > > <attribute > > > > name="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY" > > > > value="MySwtProject/target/swt-native-libs"/> > > > > </attributes> > > > > </classpathentry> > > > > > > > > And I can't figure out how to add the additional attributes > > > > without doing it manually in Eclipse everytime. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----- > > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
