general maven questions

[Christoph Höger]

Hi guys,

according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429551

rebuilding maven is a mess. While waiting for progress patiently, I have
some more general questions about maven in fedora:

1. I see a lot of maven-* packages floating around. How are those
supposed to do anything? Doesn't maven download all stuff from the cloud
[tm]?

2. If I want to package a maven project, how would I do that?
Especially: How do I manage dependencies?

3. Does anyone know if mavens pde plugin is ever going to work again?

regards

Christoph

[Andrew Overholt]

* Christoph Höger <choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de&gt; [2009-04-18 07:08]:
>  2. If I want to package a maven project, how would I do that?
>  Especially: How do I manage dependencies? 
See:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Java/JPPMavenReadme

>  3. Does anyone know if mavens pde plugin is ever going to work again?
What is this?

Andrew

[Christoph Höger]

Am Samstag, den 18.04.2009, 08:36 -0400 schrieb Andrew Overholt:
>  * Christoph Höger <choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de&gt; [2009-04-18
> 07:08]:
>  > 2. If I want to package a maven project, how would I do that?
>  > Especially: How do I manage dependencies?
>  
>  See:
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Java/JPPMavenReadme
>  
>  > 3. Does anyone know if mavens pde plugin is ever going to work again?
>  
>  What is this? 
A plugin which allows one to develop eclipse plugins and features using
maven. See: 
http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/index.html

Currently it seems to be orphaned upstream, so I will have to subsitute
it with some antrunner invocations.

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

----- "Christoph Höger" <choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de&gt; wrote:
>  Am Samstag, den 18.04.2009, 08:36 -0400 schrieb Andrew Overholt:
>  > * Christoph Höger <choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de&gt; [2009-04-18 07:08]:
>  > > 3. Does anyone know if mavens pde plugin is ever going to work
>  again?
>  > 
>  > What is this?
>  
>  A plugin which allows one to develop eclipse plugins and features
>  using
>  maven. See: 
>  http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/index.html
>  
>  Currently it seems to be orphaned upstream, so I will have to
>  subsitute
>  it with some antrunner invocations. 
You might be interested in Tycho, "..the one-stop solution for doing Eclipse and OSGi
development with Maven 2..."

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Tycho+project+overview
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/04/tycho-implicit-build-target-platfo...
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/04/tycho-040-roadmap/

I haven't used Tycho yet, so this is a pointer not a recommendation :)

cheers,
asgeir