-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-07 00:02, Ludovic Claude wrote: > > Hello Wouter, >
Hey > CDBS is not so 'yuck', it works really well for building Java packages. > DH 7 is more trendy, but it's really a question of taste. > You can try today to run mh_make (from maven-debian-helper package) on > the sources of your project, it will guide you (find missing > dependencies) and produce most of the packaging automatically. It's not > perfect, but works reasonably well on 50% of packages. > > Anyway, I have planned to support DH 7 in maven-debian-helper. If you > want to help then that would be great, as I'm not fond of writting Perl > scripts. I would need help about how to define a new build system in DH > 7. The build process using Maven is not trivial, there are several steps > and possible alternatives: > I would propose to use a DH Sequence rather than a build system. Mainly the greatest advantage of build systems are that they are auto-chosen, but this is disabled for third party build systems, so... > - debian/PACKAGE.poms and debian/maven.rules files can be automatically > generated if they are not present using mh_lspoms. It's ok if this > functionality is not kept with DH 7, as there are better tools for the > job and it's better to force the packager to do it and check for > correctness. > - the pom.xml files are patched using mh_patchpoms > - the repository located in /usr/share/maven-repo is copied locally > (more exactly symlinks are created locally) using copy-repo.sh > - clean target: mvn clean is called > - build target: mvn package is called > - install target: mvn debian:install is called > - at the end of the build, mh_unpatchpoms is called and scaffold files > are removed. > > If there is a documentation package, then mvn javadoc:jar is called, > followed by mvn debian:install-doc. > There are quite a few options to those calls, and they can either be > defined by the user, or infered from the defaults and the structure of > the package and a few conventions. I'll let you have a look at > /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/maven.mk and maven-vars.mk for details. > > So if you have any expertise with DH 7 or Perl, then please help me > here! Note that I have already made another tool DH 7 compliant, that's > maven-repo-helper and it can be used on simple Maven projects such as > libraries but it uses Ant instead of Maven as the build tool. > > Thanks, > Ludovic > [...] Personally I do have some experience, but I have quite a few things on my plate. I fear it may be a while before I can dedicate myself to this task (especially with my lack of maven background). ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNnjk7AAoJEAVLu599gGRCRZQP/2rQl41Ln9PUZnBfvHArOvDK vdk4sthWapGRNfRGlCFFtyqMBGNDcImV0pee7JAFF6JYzRbZaZJHVewFjwdk5jvL XcD8GQFcZtrBpJE9/y6kxa+biyA3qhOIIzk8aHxpyW7MWd2/VYr05yu8aMeUrYT6 th5mD3xhr0mwDDaPIHVu1X86GBuqvG6ISRElWcmlc/DF9t3kFn3u/WVJZROynXTV hZAbhNZ2V9ok+DcMsvze8VMYjHuBwt01E+PemIB2svrcj950z0F0orfrg/ahBxxD yJA2C68X16EX0yYFEd0MeqDoLjRgG0mt+X+WcayU1nonGgol5PEaUHUcDlGUxRf8 Y9BrDKcxaEbPkmFfn/61DbOcDLnidhJdpz8SYespW1jy0yPW6y43xS5AV2/S4/Ma Hltzq9ripp4j4i6e/utsDl4y10bek74y8z8Ex/gOLIdwXZMothfnew6l0edkqRWn qS4hvpqtZcRycRox+pALB5zeXCkPmya3njx5yjLeEuTe+gtg4KTSSq2ga5oYSOLY E+6nuurU5FAemx3j214aKV41/B2Hm2fixOcsj7OoO7PN+wGNO9EguUtxRo+vGe1m FY/KII55ApTBoVk9Hg+D3XyLza6lLMBoEAXFzU1FCTWT5iQVLHIbfoOOauXrlz4l yPCO8stb2wIK/n1op60p =HxnT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d9e393b.2040...@thykier.net
