Hi Hartmut, great to hear these news on Java/mvn development! Thanks for taking the time.
You posted half a year ago a series of patches that are not yet integrated into Guix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/threads.html#00774 Are they still worth integrating, or are they obsolete with your new approach? I'm asking because Ricardo wanted to work on them two weeks ago: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=+25925#16 On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:28:55 +0200 Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> wrote: > One package (googe guice) includes another ant-task which is delivered > as a jar-file. Luckily this jar includes the source files, too, but > there seems to be no source-repository for this ant-task. I investigated this a bit: Your are talking about munge, the task being defined in guice' build.xml: <taskdef name="munge" classname="MungeTask" classpath="lib/build/munge.jar"/> There is an old Blog post by Tom Ball about Munge's history: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20070402043337/http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/2006/09/munge_swings_se.html Quoting from there: "it [Munge] wasn't a product, after all". That was probably the main problem: They just used it internally at Sun, not too much caring about source code and reproducibility. Jesse Wilson made an Ant task out of it, described in this blog post: https://publicobject.com/2009/02/preprocessing-java-with-munge.html He writes: "If you're preprocessing some .java files and can use these features, help yourself to our custom munge.jar[0]. The jar includes both source and classfiles." That means: You actually found the "repository" for Munge: [0] http://google-guice.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/build/munge.jar The link is gone, because Google Code was shut down. But the jar is still downloadable from archive.org: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20090221010131/https://google-guice.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/build/munge.jar It is bit-identical with the munge.jar from the current Guice repository: https://github.com/google/guice/blob/bf0d876bb767f45c5cfbed3929e2cf6acd7d061a/lib/build/munge.jar having sha256 of: fdc08ecce4dd71d3fcb2ff0db1061091a18a37c2c24af2e7566fcb7a8500b41c munge.jar The initial commit on the jar also says about the ant integration: https://github.com/google/guice/commit/7c508c235dc7a3ec1c58a9f0600f6864279a29c3 "The stripping builds on Tom Ball's Munge.java program, with a few alterations: - we're a bit more careful about handling /* in end-of-line comments and Strings - I wrote an Ant task called MungeTask that supports munging an entire fileset" I also found a Git rebository for a Maven plugin for Munge: https://github.com/sonatype/munge-maven-plugin About your other Maven-questions, I will answer later this week. Yours, Björn
