Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/24/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Any comments on this? I guess we should have some sort of plan before we > start packaging... - "A plan? Let me put on my slightly larger glasses... OK. Hit me!"[0] [0] Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd, season#1, episode#1 http://en.wikiquote.or

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Paul Cager
On Fri, August 24, 2007 10:27 am, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > For anything requiring Maven to build you can use the maven-ant-helper > package that is in the pkg-java Subversion repository. It includes an > Ant build.xml that mimics the normal Maven build process. > > The problem with that build.xml i

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:56:47PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/24/07, Trygve Laugst?l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > The strategy that I'm fairly sure that has to be followed is to use > > Michael's package to rebuild the plugins and once a full set of plugins > > is built Maven can

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/24/07, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The strategy that I'm fairly sure that has to be followed is to use > Michael's package to rebuild the plugins and once a full set of plugins > is built Maven can be rebuilt with itself. The maven package from Paul works for me and cou

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote: And can we just build them using a custom build.xml written for ant? That's the approach I've taken for some of Maven's build-depends - a custom debian/build.xml. You could have a look at doxia or wagon for example

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Paul Cager wrote: On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:45 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: But consider the maven-resources plugin. The source jar has the following: org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/util/ org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/PropertyUtils.java org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/ReflectionProperties.

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:33:55PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > http://varun.travisbsd.org/debian_packages/maven-plugins/resources/maven-resources-plugin_2.2-1.dsc However, I am unable to figure out how to use the plugin after install, or where to install it. I also seem to be missing some files

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:07:14PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > In that case, I am going to start packaging the plugins one-by-one, > and will inform you as and when I get them ready. I will begin with > clean and resources plugins. My friend and I have made one of the plugins and uploaded it her

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:38:26PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote: > I can't give you an authoritative answer, I'm afraid, but I would be a bit > uneasy about combining separate source streams into one source package - > especially as http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/plugins/tags/ shows that > the plugi

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:45 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > But consider the maven-resources plugin. The source jar has the > following: > > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/util/ > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/PropertyUtils.java > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/ReflectionProperties.java > o

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote: > > And can we just build them using > > a custom build.xml written for ant? > > That's the approach I've taken for some of Maven's build-depends - a > custom debian/build.xml. You could have a look at doxia or wagon for > example. But c

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 1:36 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > [...] > I would like to help out in some way; at least in testing things out! That would be great. > And can we just build them using > a custom build.xml written for ant? That's the approach I've taken for some of Maven's build-depends - a

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 12:40 pm, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/23/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, August 23, 2007 8:44 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > [...] > A good starting point, but we'll have to prevent mvn to download also > updates! so I think there are properties to set or

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/08/07, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > A good starting point, but we'll have to prevent mvn to download also > updates! so I think there are properties to set or plugin to write. I would like to help out in some way; at least in testing things out! Myself and my friend (who has experience in Java pa

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/23/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, August 23, 2007 8:44 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] > > Are you sure every dependencies are in main? > > I'm pretty sure all of the build / run dependencies are in main. When you > run mvn it will download numerous Jars to the user's priv

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 8:44 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/22/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> There is also what I hope will eventually become the official Maven2 >> package: >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/maven2/ >> >> I believe this is nearly finished

Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/22/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > There is also what I hope will eventually become the official Maven2 > package: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/maven2/ > > I believe this is nearly finished (and would appreciate feedback on it). Great! $ sudo dpkg -i m

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/08/07, Paul Cager wrote: > There is also what I hope will eventually become the official Maven2 > package: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/maven2/ > > I believe this is nearly finished (and would appreciate feedback on it). > If you install this package you should get a wor

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Paul Cager
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/22/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now, to the next question. What do I do for >> maven built packages? Do I wait for maven to enter Debian first? Or is >> there some other way out? > > You can help having Maven in Debian :-D > > If you can build excal

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/22/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, to the next question. What do I do for > maven built packages? Do I wait for maven to enter Debian first? Or is > there some other way out? You can help having Maven in Debian :-D If you can build excalibur without maven, go on, if not,

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 22/08/07, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > There are lots of free implementations of the entire JEE stack, JBoss, > Geronimo and Glassfish are some. They have JARs that are certified that > you can use. Thanks to you and Arnaud for the advice. I now have found that OpenJMS is just what we want. Now, to

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian Java users, I am not really into Java packaging in Debian, but have been looking around a bit. I was actually looking to see if Apache Cocoon can somehow make it into Debian, which will eventually pave the way for inclusion of Lenya, Forrest and many more of the

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 8/22/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Java users, > > I am not really into Java packaging in Debian, but have been looking > around a bit. I was actually looking to see if Apache Cocoon can > somehow make it into Debian, which will eventually pave the way for > inclusio

Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Java users, I am not really into Java packaging in Debian, but have been looking around a bit. I was actually looking to see if Apache Cocoon can somehow make it into Debian, which will eventually pave the way for inclusion of Lenya, Forrest and many more of the nice Java stuff Apache