On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:48:14AM +0100, Philipp Meier wrote: [...] > I'm the maintainer of the jetty package which uses ant as build tool. > The new beta release of jetty use maven 2 for packaging. I think that > many projects will switch to maven 2, too, sooner or later. [...] Agreed, Maven is definitely shaping up to be the successor to Ant, and many projects build with it; one handy thing is that Maven has the facility to automatically generate a corresponding Ant script, so a given project's switch to Maven won't be as disruptive as it might seem at first blush. [...] > I investigated in the current situation. There is an ITP filed on it by > Trygve Laugstøl (#323050). I talked to Trygve on irc -- he said that > he's not currently working on it. [...] While Trygve is not actively working on it, he has agreed to make himself available in a consultative role for those of us taking up the task. [...] > To my evaluation there are the following challenges when packaging maven2: [...] Yes, your assessment of the situation seems on target. Trygve has identified most of the obstacles in his initial work, and since he is a Maven developer, he should be able to steer us in a good direction. [...] > Any comments? Anyone who likes to dig into this or does already? Should > we have a debian-maven2-policy? [...] I volunteered recently to help Trygve package this, so I would be interested in working with you. Regards, -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com Registered Linux User #368650
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