Re: Maven .... Nightmare

Understood. I'm just going to research the change for now.

Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[email protected]>
To: "Tapestry development" <[email protected]>
Cc: <tapestry-contrib-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: Maven .... Nightmare


> I just want to caution against one thing:  Please do not reoganize the
> source code directories yet.  I know we want to organize the project
> structure more like an Apache project and that's fine ... but to do so now
> would cripple my ability to cleanly and safely merge in a huge number of
> changes from my branch and Mind Bridge is in the same boat with his
branch.
>
> Once we put 2.3 to bed, we can merge in code changes into 2.4 and then we
> can rename packages and reorganize overall structure.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[email protected]>
> To: "Tapestry development" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <tapestry-contrib-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tapestry-contrib] Getting back into it
>
>
> > To help with Maven, here's some notes about how releases are currently
> > built.  Some of these notes overlap details in the Contributor's Guide,
so
> > you should check that out as well.
> >
> > The master build file does all the work, reinvoking Ant in many
> > subdirectories and combining all the results.
> >
> > I've seen a lot of projects that require you to set environment
variables
> > and/or use a shell script wrapper.  I don't get why.
> >
> > The only thing external to the Tapestry workspace is the directories for
a
> > couple of large, external tools:  JBoss, FOP, Saxon and Clover.
> >
> > JBoss is needed because we build demos that plug into JBoss in a turnkey
> > way.  FOP is for DocBook to PDF.  Saxon is for DocBook to HTML or
DocBook
> to
> > Flow Objects (fed into FOP) ... I use Saxon because it is about 20x
faster
> > than Xalan doing the same job.  Clover is proprietary source code
coverage
> > tool.
> >
> > Getting Ant to use Saxon instead of Xalan requires a few command line
> > options that can be accomplished via the ANT_OPTS env variable:
> >
> >
>
ANT_OPTS=-Xmx256mb -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.cri
> >
>
on.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl  -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=o
> > rg.apache.crimson.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
> >
> > The other three external tools (JBoss, FOP and Clover) are identified in
> the
> > build.properties file which must be placed into the config directory.
> This
> > file sets three properties needed by the many Ant build scripts:
> >
> > jboss.dir
> > fop.dir
> > clover.dir
> >
> > Each of these is the absolute path to the respective tool.  It is
> important
> > to use FORWARD SLASHES ONLY or you will get build errors.  I've enclosed
a
> > copy that I use when I do builds.
> >
> > Clover has kindly donated a copy of their tool to Tapestry; a copy of
> their
> > distribution is in the support directory.
> >
> > The final piece of the puzzle is the disto build script.  This is in the
> > support directory.  I typically copy this out to a temporary directory.
I
> > also copy my current build.properties file to the same directory.
> >
> > The distro build script has two targets.  "setup" uses anonymous CVS to
> grab
> > a fresh copy of the Tapestry workspace.  It uses export, so that the CVS
> > directories are not exported.  This takes about one minute.
> >
> > "build" copies the build.properties file into the exported workspace and
> > invokes the "dist" target on the master build file.  It then copies the
> > resulting distro files back up to the current directory.  This takes
about
> > nine minutes (on my new, blazing fast laptop, anyway).
> >
> > Side note:  Tapestry has, checked into the repository, copies of DocBook
> XML
> > and the DocBook XSL distros.  It automatically unpacks these as needed
> > during the build.  We may want to change things to make these
addtiional,
> > external tools as well.
> >
> > Side note:  People have had compatibility issues when using Tapestry
JARs
> > compiled by the 1.4 compiler, even in 1.3 compatibility mode.  I
currently
> > set my JAVA_HOME to a JDK 1.3 before doing the build to ensure maximum
> > compatibility.
> >
> > Currently, three distro files are created:  Tapestry-x.x-core.tar.gz is
> the
> > main distribution, containing the compiled JARs, external libraries
(such
> as
> > OGNL and Log4J) and the source code (packaged into .jar files).
> >
> > Tapestry-x.x.-doc.tar.gz contains all the documentation for Tapestry;
> > JavaDoc, Contributor's Guide, and the various manuals (in HTML and PDF).
> >
> > Tapestry-Web-x.x.tar.gz contains an image of the Tapestry web site,
which
> is
> > similar to the doc distro, but includes the Clover code coverage report.
> >
> > Tapestry builds .tar.gz files currently because a) WinZip can open them
> fine
> > and b) they are smaller than the equivalent .zip files.
> >
> > I'm sure there'll be some impedance using Maven, but since Tapestry is
> > already built to use straight Ant to perform full builds (albiet with a
> > couple of configuration gotchas) I hope it will not be too tricky.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <dion-2ngoU/[email protected]>
> > To: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <tapestry-contrib-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>;
> > <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Tapestry-contrib] Getting back into it
> >
> >
> > > tapestry-contrib-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org wrote on 13/01/2003
> 09:07:03
> > > AM:
> > > > I really recommend Mavenizing to this effect.  I bet dion would help
> > > > with that..  (http://jakarta.apache.org/maven)
> > >
> > > I'm happy to help with Mavenizing, if only for the docs part of the
> > > process. We should also look and see if we can improve the docbook
> plugin
> > > for Maven (as it's rarely used and a little buggy!), to handle the
> > > existing formats.
> > >
> > > > Alternatively (and this is what POI does) if maven doesn't do what
you
> > > > need Centipede (http://krysalis.org/centipede) and Forrest
> > > > (http://xml.apache.org/forrest) might help.
> > > >
> > > > However it really depends on whether Maven works under gump...
> > > Maven generates viable gump descriptors these days.
> > >
> > > > Gump should be one of our top priorities (jakarta.apache.org/gump)
> > > > because it could do the builds and site publish for us...
> > > +1
> > > --
> > > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
> > > Blog:      http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog
> > > Work:      http://www.multitask.com.au
> > >
> > >
> > >
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