Re: A Java Packaging Wishlist
On Saturday May 26 2007, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis@apache.org> wrote:
> > Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> > > If we wanna use maven to build, we need maven in main. If we
> > > want to extract metadata, we just need an xslt or some
> > > perl/python/java/whatever xml parser.
> >
> > No you don't. I meant that you can use Maven to generate the
> > files and include in debian/. That way you can leverage the
> > project's meta-data and start working on integration Maven into
> > the build process until it is properly into main and those files
> > can be generated build-time.
>
> I don't like the idea of generating those files at build time. But
> maybe I don't understand what you mean.
Sorry to be unclear. I meant at the time when you are first assembling
the package from the upstream source. The information in the pom can
be used to derive a lot of data in the debian control files.
In addition when another version is available from upstream the pom
content can be verified back into the control files to do amendments.
That wont be fully automatic of course.
manfred
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