Re: [VOTE 2] maven-assembly-plugin 2.2-beta-4

[Brian Fox <br...@infinity.nu>]

2009/5/29 David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>

> I'm eager to see this get out... this version works fine for me after I
> hacked the assembly descriptor parents so I could build it (no idea why I
> couldn't get to the parent snapshots)
>
> I'm not convinced all the worrying about regular expressions for
> includes/excludes is worth it.  The only way to be really sure you're
> getting what was in svn is to do the assembly immediately after svn export.
>  Otherwise you're apt to pick up or omit ide files (*.ipr etc from eclipse)
> that some projects put in svn and others don't --no matter how careful you
> think you're being a lot of the time you'll get it wrong.
>
> BTW, how/when will the almost as important assembly descriptor get
> released?
>
As soon as the assembly plugin is working I'll update the poms. FWIW, I'm
planning this _only_ for the maven pom in the first go around. I want to
have time to uncover and fix any kinks before it gets hoisted out to the
rest of the apache projects.

>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>
> On May 28, 2009, at 3:23 PM, John Casey wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I've corrected the regression from the first VOTE thread for this plugin,
>> and I'm ready to try this again...the URLs below have been updated where
>> appropriate.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> As I'm sure you've noticed, we've had a large thread on this list
>> regarding how to put together a proper ASF release using Maven. In order
>> to enable the Assembly plugin to take on the burden of producing ASF
>> source-release assemblies, we had to fix a few bugs. Along with this,
>> I've also tackled the tar/zip file modes problem. The staged repository
>> for this release can be found at:
>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-staging-033
>>
>> The JIRA notes for the release can be found at the following URL, or at
>> appended to the end of this message:
>>
>>
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11126&styleName=Html&version=15298
>>
>> Please vote!
>>
>> [ ] +1 Pull the trigger!
>> [ ] +0 ...like I care
>> [ ] -1 Stop right there and back away from the plugin slowly!
>>
>> Here's my +1.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -john
>>
>> ===================
>>
>>
>> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin - Version 2.2-beta-4
>>
>>
>> ** Bug
>>   * [MASSEMBLY-238] - Assembly plugin removes file permissions
>>   * [MASSEMBLY-379] - Follow-up: file permissions are removed when
>> creating tar.gz assembly
>>   * [MASSEMBLY-413] - Assembly plugin uses absolute paths from
>> project instance after interpolation
>>   * [MASSEMBLY-414] - Allow regular expressions in include/exclude
>> patterns for filesets
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> John Casey
>> Developer and PMC Member, Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org)
>> Member, Apache Software Foundation
>>
>> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
>>      -Aristotle
>>
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