Re: Maven dependency

Turadg Aleahmad wrote:

> Hi, folks.
> 
> I recently set up JIST to use Maven:
>  http://telstech.org/jist/
> 
> One of JIST's dependencies is SISC and it would be nice if it were in 
> the Maven repository like so many other useful packages.
>  http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/
> 
> This page suggests that it's pretty easy to upload JARs for inclusion in 
> the repository:
>  http://maven.apache.org/repository-upload.html
> 
> One catch is that Maven only handles JAR dependencies and SISC requires 
> sisc.shp.  I think this should be okay with the sisc-heap.jar built by 
> the "heap-jar" Ant target.
> 
> What I'm thinking is to follow those instructions and upload a 
> "sisc-1.8.8.jar" that merges sisc.jar, sisc-lib.jar, sisc-opt.jar and 
> sisc-heap.jar.  What do you guys think?

In what I can glean from the Maven docs, an upload bundle is a jar that 
contains, amongst other things, a single jar that is the "artifact" of a 
maven project. Surely that jar can contain anything you like, including 
sisc.shp?

> Incidentally, it would be even easier to make (and maintain) the 
> repository submission if the project had a Maven POM.

Don't you need that anyway, since the bundle must contain the 
project.xml, i.e. the POM?

> It could also 
> make the Debian package trivial using the deb plugin.
>  http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-deb-plugin/

That would be marvellous.


Matthias.



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