Re: Build scripts for smaller or more specific distributions

[Jean-Sebastien Delfino <js...@apache.org>]

Jean-Sebastien Delfino wrote:
> Jean-Sebastien Delfino wrote:
>> Mike Edwards wrote:
>>> Jean-Sebastien,
>>>
>>> I was one of the nay-sayers way back.
>>>
>>> But I've changed my mind.  Let's try this out.
>>>
>>> I still think that it would be useful to have install scripts that 
>>> would deal with popular runtime combinations (Geronimo, Tomcat, etc).
>>>
>>> But your approach here will give us some "smal and simple" packages 
>>> for folk who are doing "small and simple" stuff.
>>>
>>> +1 to put it into trunk.
>>
>> The build scripts are already in trunk under distribution/features.
>>
>>> +1 to put it into the build too.
>>
>> To build all packages run mvn in distribution/features.
>> To build package X run mvn in distribution/features/X.
>> To build a package and the modules it depends on run mvn -Pmodules.
...

I've added a distribution/features/repository module that generates a 
Zip containing a Maven  repository with the Tuscany JARs and 
dependencies in it.

I found it useful when building disconnected from the network or as a 
backup when the online Maven repositories are down or slow.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Jean-Sebastien