Hi Mikołaj, Le 10/11/2015 23:27, Mikołaj Izdebski a écrit :
> For the past 4 years I've been working on improving and automating > Java packaging techniques in Fedora/RHEL. Seeing Debian trying to do > the same now (esp. recent implementation of Gradle helper and attempt > to package Tycho) I feel obligated to help you, at least by pointing > and explaining existing solutions in Fedora, sharing other experience > or even doing Debian packaging work. I'd like to sincerely thank you for your help. I haven't been able to reuse your code for the Gradle helper, but I don't think I would have been able to do it as easily without reading the XMvn code. > 4. XMvn. I would like to suggest trying using XMvn project in Debian. > It has been designed specifically to automate packaging Java software > for GNU/Linux distributions. XMvn strives to be distribution-agnostic > (all Fedora- and RPM-specific code are in separate project -- > javapackages [7]). XMvn has full support for Apache Maven, Gradle, > Eclipse Tycho and Apache Ivy, plus partial support for Aether Ant Tasks > and SBT (through Ivy). If there is any interest in seeing XMvn used > in Debian then I'm willing to package it, maintain it and implement > any upstream code necessary to support Debian use cases. It would be really great if we were able to join our forces around a common set of tools. maven-debian-helper serves us well but I don't feel married to it. I haven't figured out yet how to use XMvn in a Debian context, but I definitely keep an eye on it. The main hurdle I think is how to manage a mixed environment with /usr/share/maven-repo populated by maven-debian-helper and the XMvn repository. If the tools can't interoperate we would have to plan a transition and that would take a lot of time and effort. Since I can't undertake that for now I'm just doing small incremental improvements like gradle-debian-helper. My next goal is the transition of maven-debian-helper to Maven 3, your trick to override/inject code into Maven solves an issue we had with the dependency resolution due to the lack of maven-metadata.xml files in the Debian repository. So even if we aren't able to share code yet we are at least sharing ideas and that's very valuable. Emmanuel Bourg
