<bump> Nobody in the same boat?
On 1/9/08, Kalle Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm facing a similar issue in a couple Maven projects where I'm creating a > a distribution package (e.g. tar.gz) or an installer (e.g rpm, Windows > installer) for a binary (jar, exe). I have a separate module for the > packager that has a dependency to the binary, and a parent pom for these. > Say, for example "application" parent, with application-distro and and > application-jar as child modules. I run the release:prepare from the parent > and I correctly get the dependencies resolved. Now the issue is that since > release:prepare only runs "test verify", building the application-distro > fails because the release-versioned application-jar isn't available yet. I > run the install of application-jar manually (note that the poms are already > modified at this point) and resume release:prepare which now succeeds. Not > too bad overall, but something I cannot imagine automating to a point of > having it in Continuum as a single-button-release. > > So I'm looking for best practices and experiences from others in similar > situations. One of the things is that I'm unsure of is if it makes any sense > to version the distro separately; in practice it should always follow the > versioning of the application itself (which I need to produce anyway; for > development and running integration tests it's unnecessary to run the > packager). I can see a few other ways to construct the build: either I can > move the distro build to the parent (but then I need to combat the problems > running assembly in a reactor build with a forked lifecycle or just run > assembly manually and forget about versioning it), or I could make the > assembly as part of the application module and simply use a different > classifier for the installer (but that doesn't sound conceptually right and > in case of Windows app/installers, both would likely produce exe types). How > are others producing distros and installers organizing their Maven projects? > > > Thanks, > Kalle >
