Usage of SCM and Changelog plugins

[en...@sgx.com]

I am trying to use the SCM plugin to checkout the source codes from CVS and
the changelog plugin to generate the change log report.  I noticed that
there is a difference between the SCM checkout directory and the base
directory for Changelog.  The SCM checkout directory is default to
${basedir}/checkout, while the Changelog always refers to the ${basedir} as
the base directory.  Moreover, when the source codes are checked out using
SCM, a subdirectory of the module name is always created under the checkout
directory.

Does anyone know how I can resolve such difference?

Some other things I noticed about the SCM plugin:
1. The SCM plugin uses the repository definition in the POM to extract the
SCM module name.  So the suggested property 'maven.scm.cvs.module' is
redundant.
2.  The SCM plugin fails when the module name contains space characters.
This happens because I am using WSAD as my IDE, and by default, the source
codes are created under the 'Java Source' directory.  A simple patch that I
had applied is to put single quote around the package name, like this:
<ant:cvs command="checkout ${maven.scm.cvs.checkout.flags}" quiet="
${maven.scm.cvs.quiet}" cvsRsh="${maven.scm.cvs.rsh}" cvsRoot="
${maven.scm.cvs.root}" dest="${maven.scm.checkout.dir}" package="'
${maven.scm.cvs.module}'" tag="${maven.scm.cvs.sticky.tag}" failonerror="
true"/>

Anyone has any better solution?

The version of Maven I am using is 1.0-rc2.

Regards,
Eng Hoe
Application Development
Technology Group
SGX Ltd

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Re: Usage of SCM and Changelog plugins

[di...@multitask.com.au]

enghoe@sgx.com wrote on 02/01/2004 02:31:48 PM:

> I am trying to use the SCM plugin to checkout the source codes from CVS 
and
> the changelog plugin to generate the change log report.  I noticed that
> there is a difference between the SCM checkout directory and the base
> directory for Changelog.  The SCM checkout directory is default to
> ${basedir}/checkout, while the Changelog always refers to the ${basedir} 
as
> the base directory.  Moreover, when the source codes are checked out 
using
> SCM, a subdirectory of the module name is always created under the 
checkout
> directory.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can resolve such difference?
Yes.

The changes plugins all assume that the project is the thing the changelog 
is generated for. If you are simply attaining the report goal, do that for 
the project that was just checked out. there is a maven tag to do this. 
See http://maven.apache.org/tags.html#maven:maven.

So in the parent maven.xml, add xmlns:maven="jelly:maven" to your 
<project>, and then do:

<maven descriptor="${basedir}/target/checkouts/projectname/project.xml" 
goals="..." />

> Some other things I noticed about the SCM plugin:
> 1. The SCM plugin uses the repository definition in the POM to extract 
the
> SCM module name.  So the suggested property 'maven.scm.cvs.module' is
> redundant.
> 2.  The SCM plugin fails when the module name contains space characters.
> This happens because I am using WSAD as my IDE, and by default, the 
source
> codes are created under the 'Java Source' directory.  A simple patch 
that I
> had applied is to put single quote around the package name, like this:
> <ant:cvs command="checkout ${maven.scm.cvs.checkout.flags}" quiet="
> ${maven.scm.cvs.quiet}" cvsRsh="${maven.scm.cvs.rsh}" cvsRoot="
> ${maven.scm.cvs.root}" dest="${maven.scm.checkout.dir}" package="'
> ${maven.scm.cvs.module}'" tag="${maven.scm.cvs.sticky.tag}" 
failonerror="
> true"/>
> 
> Anyone has any better solution?
> 
> The version of Maven I am using is 1.0-rc2.

--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/





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