maven improvements - help offer

[Sebastian Hennebrueder <us...@laliluna.de>]

Hello

I started to use buildr and was slightly annoyed by the limited maven 
support.

Apart from not resolving properly, I had poms which couldn't be parsed. 
I switched the parser to Nokogiri and improved the code to deliver 
better results.

Well it does work know but I run into the next big problem:

The transitive methods split up a hash of dependencies and resolves them 
individually. Naturally this doesn't work because I need to know all 
dependencies to avoid duplicate instances.

The consequence is that I have to change the API. It could look like the 
following code snippet. Before I start working on this, is there 
interest to integrate this or is there anybody working on something like 
this?

MY_DEPS = maven do
    
add("org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:jar:3.3.2.GA:compile").transient.exclude("foo:bar")
    add({ :groupId=>"org.hibernate", :artifactId =>"hibernate-ehcache", 
:version=>"3.3.2.GA", :scope=> "compile"}).transient
    add("foo:bar:1.0").exclude('foo:*')   
end
define 'laliluna' do
    project.version = '1.1'
    package :jar
    compile.with MY_DEPS
end

-- 
Best Regards / Viele Grüße

Sebastian Hennebrueder
-----
Software Developer and Trainer for Hibernate / Java Persistence
http://www.laliluna.de

Re: maven improvements - help offer

[Alex Boisvert <al...@gmail.com>]

Yes, I would be quite interested in integrating your enhancements.  We
should try to remain backward compatible with the existing transitive() but
apart from that, the field is pretty open for improvements.  Give it your
best shot!

alex

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Sebastian Hennebrueder
<us...@laliluna.de>wrote:

> Hello
>
> I started to use buildr and was slightly annoyed by the limited maven
> support.
>
> Apart from not resolving properly, I had poms which couldn't be parsed. I
> switched the parser to Nokogiri and improved the code to deliver better
> results.
>
> Well it does work know but I run into the next big problem:
>
> The transitive methods split up a hash of dependencies and resolves them
> individually. Naturally this doesn't work because I need to know all
> dependencies to avoid duplicate instances.
>
> The consequence is that I have to change the API. It could look like the
> following code snippet. Before I start working on this, is there interest to
> integrate this or is there anybody working on something like this?
>
> MY_DEPS = maven do
>   add("org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:jar:3.3.2.GA:
> compile").transient.exclude("foo:bar")
>   add({ :groupId=>"org.hibernate", :artifactId =>"hibernate-ehcache",
> :version=>"3.3.2.GA", :scope=> "compile"}).transient
>   add("foo:bar:1.0").exclude('foo:*')   end
> define 'laliluna' do
>   project.version = '1.1'
>   package :jar
>   compile.with MY_DEPS
> end
>
> --
> Best Regards / Viele Grüße
>
> Sebastian Hennebrueder
> -----
> Software Developer and Trainer for Hibernate / Java Persistence
> http://www.laliluna.de
>
>
>
>