On 04-Sep-2012, at 7:42 PM, Hugo Trippaers <htrippa...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> Hey all, > > The switch to maven is coming along nicely I think, however we are not there > yet. With the dependencies gone from the tree, the maven build is now the > easiest way to build CloudStack IMHO. All classes are properly compiled and > stored in jar files and dependencies are automagically downloaded to make > sure everything compiles. Over the last few days I've added packaging of the > systemvm.iso to the maven files and I did some work on the awsapi. The awsapi > is proving to be difficult as it has multiple results (.mar, .aar, .jar files > and a webapp). Maven doesn't really like this. On the other hand, maven has > plugins to deal with axis2 and generate everything, so with a bit of work we > should be able to simplify this. Test code is not compiled in some cases as > there are some interesting circular references (test code for server > depending on vmware plugin comes to mind), that needs to be sorted if we want > maven to be able to do its job. > > I've spend the last two days to get packaging back into something that looks > workable. Even though we want to move away from waf, it seemed like the best > way to fix the packaging for now. With the exception of awsapi all RPM > packages are being built on my dev environment so that is looking good. I > don't have a debian environment yet, so I'm not able to test a debian build. > I haven't done any testing on the rpms yet, just verified that they are > build, hoping to do that tomorrow. Let's keep waf for sometime. But since ant is already broken :( > Couple of questions that I would like some feedback on: > * Maven includes the dependencies with their original filename, I believe we > used to ship our deps with cloud- prepended to the name. Now we need to > either check if our dependencies aren't already supplied by the OS or put > them in a different directory, like /usr/share/java/cloud/*jar. What is the > best route to take? Fixable with a custom maven exec? I think it's better to ship these jars with a cloud- prefix (if there is no licensing issue) or for distro specific releases (debs, rpms) have the dependencies added in the rules. > Feedback, ideas, I'm new to maven and I think many of us are too. Could you share with us simple commands on how to use the ol' ant commands deploydb, deploy-server and debug with maven. Do we have those goals running now, or are the wip? For me ant commands don't work anymore. > complaints anyone? For the past one week I'm unable to get my server running. Not towards any specific person, but can we please not commit partial changes into master at least? Regards, Rohit > > Will send an update when there is something to report. > > Cheers, > > Hugo >
