[xwiki-dev] Maven/build help

[Vincent Massol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Lijour [mailto:marc at lijour.net]
> Sent: mercredi 3 janvier 2007 06:02
> To: xwiki-dev at objectweb.org
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-dev] Maven/build help
> 
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 17:41, Vincent Massol wrote:
> > > When I checked out xwiki/trunk as a project in eclipse and I enable
> > > the
> > > maven2 plugin, it starts downloading a bunch of stuff and it
> > > complains about 2 items (see log below). Is that normal? Did I
> > > checked out everything I need?
> >
> > That's because I haven't published these artifacts in the xwiki
> remote
> > repo, so you have to build them before they can be used by a module
> > requiring them.
> >
> > The full build is available when you check xwiki/trunks-dev but this
> > will only work for xwiki committers as it required svn+ssh access.
> > I'll create a trunks-users for you if you want to try it out.
> 
> Curiously I could check something out.  But my version only contains
> pom.xml and a soft link to a pom folder.
> 
> Part of the confusion comes from the many directories under
> svnroot/xwiki. I
> see:
> 
> - pom
> - trunk-devs
> - trunk-users (thank you)
> - vendor
> - xwiki
> - xwiki-{apps,client,plugins,sandbox,tools}
> 
> Which one(s) do I need? Only trunk-users?
> Could we document briefly what each folder is holding and what to check
> out?

Yes we need to do that. I've started on
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building

Short answer: you can check out whatever you want to build. So you need to
know what each is.

> > > Is everybody using maven2 or ant or something else?
> >
> > I am but it's not finished. That said it's building fine. It's just
> > that tests have not all been moved yet, some modules have no maven2
> > build and I haven't fully tested the generated WAR yet so it may be
> > missing some runtime dependencies.
> >
> > > A few pointers would be nice. Thanks.
> >
> > Sure. We can start workong on this together if you want and document
> > it as we progress.
> 
> I can do that from the point of view of the perfect maven2 newbie :)

Cool... Feel free to continue the documentation on
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building
 
> > > (I still wonder why it has to download stuff since everything is
> > > available in the svn repository.
> >
> > Well that's how maven works... :-) Each module has binary
> dependencies
> > and each module produces artifacts which are depended upon by other
> modules.
> > When you build with mvn install generated artifacts are put in your
> > local repo (mvn deploy deploys them in the remote repo). They are
> then
> > available to other modules.
> >
> > You can of course build everything from sources if you cd to the top
> > level of the source tree (trunks-dev for now, see above).
> >
> > To better understand this see
> >
> >http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/vmassol/archives/think_tank.html#0009
> 5
> >3_bi
> >n ary_dependency_builds
> 
> Yes, very interesting.
> 
> When dealing with dependencies in the past I used the ant svn task to
> update the subproject local image as a prerequisite for the build. But
> I see that using a continuous build to generate working libraries once
> and making them available on a server is much more efficient (if you
> trust the binaries that is ; but then you already trust the source so
> that nullifies the security argument anyway).

The only thing missing right now to have a good m2 build is a CI for Maven2.
We need to find a machine 1) that can run it and discover when it breaks so
that it can be fixed immediately and 2) that publishes the generated
artifacts to the remote repo.
 
> > > Actually it would be a good idea to
> > > keep the libraries aside, in another folder, if they have to be
> > > re-used in different places but then why keeping them in the
> > > repository as
> > > well?)
> >
> > Jars in libs/ will be removed when we remove the Ant build as Maven2
> > handles this with the notion of repositories (local and remote).
> 
> Now I understand. Thanks.

-Vincent




	

	
		
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