Congrats, but I think this should be renamed to the unix-package-maven-plugin. I told my coworkers about this release and they instantly were confused and wondered what maven and unix had to do together.
Paul On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Trygve Laugstøl <tryg...@codehaus.org> wrote: > I'm happy to announce the second alpha release of unix-maven-plugin. This is > still primarily a technology preview, but is fully functional. > > = New in this release = > > o Support for includes/excludes per assembly operation. > o Improved support for defaults > o The plugin now require Java 5. If you use Java 1.4 there are > retrotranslated JAR files available, but they're not tested > > = About the plugin = > > The unix-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin for producing installation > packages for UNIX platforms. > > The current release is 1.0-alpha-2. This release is meant as a technology > preview release. The plugin is useful but work is in progress to make sure > it support even more use cases. The documentation is currently lacking, but > the integration tests currently act as the documentation. > > See the TODO.txt[1] for the latest status on supported cases and planned > features. See the README.txt[2] in the integration test directory for an > explanation of the different integration tests. > > The plugin combines the work of the deb, solaris and rpm Maven plugins and > also handles the aspect of assembling the packages without using the > assembly plugin. > > Supported platforms: > > * Debian (.deb) > * RedHat and Fedora (.rpm) > * SysV packages for Solaris (.pkg) > > The development happens on the Codehaus Mojo project [3], if you want to try > it out, have found an issue or just want your use case supported get in > touch through the mailing lists [4]. > > [1]: http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/TODO.txt > [2]: > http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/unix-maven-plugin/src/it/README.txt > [3]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/ > [4]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/mail-lists.html > > -- > Trygve > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
