28 Apr
2011
28 Apr
'11
10:53 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:47, Andreas Hahn <ahahn(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Am 28.04.2011 09:33, schrieb Thomas Mortagne:
The real reference is
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building which explain
how to use maven. "Building in Eclipse" is just an alternative and as
so is at the end of the documentation.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 23:34, Andreas
Hahn<ahahn(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Your words are bit of a contrast to the instructions "build the easy way"
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BuildingInEclipse#HBuildingWi…
As a maven rookie i'm just looking for the easisest solution. So I
followed the above instructions 'like a slave' and it seemed to work.
Except that the workbench looks like a mess - lots of Java errors and
Maven errors - see screenshots above.
I haven't yet installed maven - only the m2eclipse plugin - should I do
that - and if so is the most recent version ok ?
What is the recommendation ? Finally it seems I built the platform
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B05JH-hYx5XIMjliMGRhOGYtYzMxMi00NmY4LTk5YT…
But it doesn't look like a regular build in Eclipse - lots of error flags:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B05JH-hYx5XIMmZkNzRiNDItZjA0Zi00NzYxLTgzNj…
maybe it has to do that m2eclipse builds aren't fully supported ?
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B05JH-hYx5XINjQxYmM3NDUtMzdlZC00ZWExLTgxMz…
I'm not sure if its necessary to further investigate in a 'clean' build
or if its ok just ignore the errors ?
Do you really need to build with M2Eclipse ?
I find using console to
do plain mvn install a lot easier unless you are on Windows maybe. IMO
the point of using M2Eclipse is to be integrated into Eclipse, I never
need to build a project when using M2Eclipse since Eclipse give me the
java error and I can run unit tests directly from Eclipse too, I even
have checkstyle thanks to eclipse-cs. I just run the plain maven
sometimes before committing a big modification to validate a bunch of
projects (I never open the whole platform into Eclipse, only what I'm
really working on otherwise it's very slow).
Rookie question #2:
Once i install maven manually and run 'mvn install' from command line as
you say - will the IDE reflect all
the results of the build process - that is after refreshing all the Java
errors that became apparent after importing from maven would disappear ?
What I really said is that you don't need to do mvn install at all
except if you want to distribute the result. If all you want is java
error/warning and run unit tests etc... just let Eclipse take care of
it, that's what M2Eclipse is for.
Rookie question #3:
Is it advisable to just copy and paste an .m2 repository to another
workstation (other VM) to save there the long repository download times ?
Yep you can copy .m2 repositories and indeed to avoid having to
download a lot of stuff.
- im still learning -
thanks
Andreas
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