sipXconfig maven2 based build

[Bielicki Michael <michal.bielicki (at) halo2.pl>]

On 2006-02-03, at 14:09, Damian Krzeminski wrote:
<snip>

> I fully agree with everything you said in last paragraph. Since you  
> tracking this project for more than a year now, I think you will  
> admit that it did get easier to build and install.
>
> I would not dream about making build process worse. I think that  
> too many sipX developers and users know where I live by now :-)
> (also see: http://sipxconfig.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-hope-ie- 
> maven2.html)
>
> I'd like to clarify something about maven. If we have maven based  
> build (and this is quite a big if still), maven will be the only  
> sipXconfig dependency. Maven is for java what auto tools + yum/apt/ 
> yast are for C/C++ based software.
>
> At the moment to compile sipXconfig you have to install and  
> download about various 10 packages. In addition we distribute quite  
> a few .jars in the lib directory. If we switch to maven, there will  
> be only maven package.
>
> While I did check that support for maven is planned in jpackage  
> which will take care of many distros and as you pointed out, I am  
> not really worried about it much.
> Even without native package maven is extremely easy to install -  
> see my last e-mail.
>
> Anyway, make/ant based build does not go anywhere without  
> developers community approval. If maven build proves to be no  
> easier that what we have today, you will not hear about it again.
>
> Damian

I pretty much like the maven idea. It will help to keep cross  
platform compatibility high, as opposed to pure linuxification :) But  
than, its just me, the guy who wants this stuff to run on Solaris and  
MacOSX as well :)

Just my 2c EUR

cheers

Michal

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