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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Paul Benedict <pb...@apache.org> on 2009/02/24 01:27:05 UTC
Re: [mojo-user] [ANNOUNCEMENT] - UNIX Maven Plugin 1.0-alpha-2
released
Congrats, but I think this should be renamed to the
unix-package-maven-plugin. I told my coworkers about this release and
they instantly were confused and wondered what maven and unix had to
do together.
Paul
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Trygve Laugstøl <tr...@codehaus.org> wrote:
> I'm happy to announce the second alpha release of unix-maven-plugin. This is
> still primarily a technology preview, but is fully functional.
>
> = New in this release =
>
> o Support for includes/excludes per assembly operation.
> o Improved support for defaults
> o The plugin now require Java 5. If you use Java 1.4 there are
> retrotranslated JAR files available, but they're not tested
>
> = About the plugin =
>
> The unix-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin for producing installation
> packages for UNIX platforms.
>
> The current release is 1.0-alpha-2. This release is meant as a technology
> preview release. The plugin is useful but work is in progress to make sure
> it support even more use cases. The documentation is currently lacking, but
> the integration tests currently act as the documentation.
>
> See the TODO.txt[1] for the latest status on supported cases and planned
> features. See the README.txt[2] in the integration test directory for an
> explanation of the different integration tests.
>
> The plugin combines the work of the deb, solaris and rpm Maven plugins and
> also handles the aspect of assembling the packages without using the
> assembly plugin.
>
> Supported platforms:
>
> * Debian (.deb)
> * RedHat and Fedora (.rpm)
> * SysV packages for Solaris (.pkg)
>
> The development happens on the Codehaus Mojo project [3], if you want to try
> it out, have found an issue or just want your use case supported get in
> touch through the mailing lists [4].
>
> [1]: http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/TODO.txt
> [2]:
> http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/unix-maven-plugin/src/it/README.txt
> [3]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/
> [4]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/mail-lists.html
>
> --
> Trygve
>
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Re: [mojo-user] [ANNOUNCEMENT] - UNIX Maven Plugin 1.0-alpha-2 released
Posted by Rusty Wright <ru...@gmail.com>.
I think that that was the problem; they couldn't imagine what it might do. The word UNIX doesn't bring to mind doing anything specific.
Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>
> What did they expect it to do?
>
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Re: [mojo-user] [ANNOUNCEMENT] - UNIX Maven Plugin 1.0-alpha-2 released
Posted by Trygve Laugstøl <tr...@codehaus.org>.
Paul Benedict wrote:
> Congrats, but I think this should be renamed to the
> unix-package-maven-plugin. I told my coworkers about this release and
> they instantly were confused and wondered what maven and unix had to
> do together.
What did they expect it to do?
--
Trygve
> Paul
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Trygve Laugstøl <tr...@codehaus.org> wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce the second alpha release of unix-maven-plugin. This is
>> still primarily a technology preview, but is fully functional.
>>
>> = New in this release =
>>
>> o Support for includes/excludes per assembly operation.
>> o Improved support for defaults
>> o The plugin now require Java 5. If you use Java 1.4 there are
>> retrotranslated JAR files available, but they're not tested
>>
>> = About the plugin =
>>
>> The unix-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin for producing installation
>> packages for UNIX platforms.
>>
>> The current release is 1.0-alpha-2. This release is meant as a technology
>> preview release. The plugin is useful but work is in progress to make sure
>> it support even more use cases. The documentation is currently lacking, but
>> the integration tests currently act as the documentation.
>>
>> See the TODO.txt[1] for the latest status on supported cases and planned
>> features. See the README.txt[2] in the integration test directory for an
>> explanation of the different integration tests.
>>
>> The plugin combines the work of the deb, solaris and rpm Maven plugins and
>> also handles the aspect of assembling the packages without using the
>> assembly plugin.
>>
>> Supported platforms:
>>
>> * Debian (.deb)
>> * RedHat and Fedora (.rpm)
>> * SysV packages for Solaris (.pkg)
>>
>> The development happens on the Codehaus Mojo project [3], if you want to try
>> it out, have found an issue or just want your use case supported get in
>> touch through the mailing lists [4].
>>
>> [1]: http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/TODO.txt
>> [2]:
>> http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/unix/unix-maven-plugin/src/it/README.txt
>> [3]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/
>> [4]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/mail-lists.html
>>
>> --
>> Trygve
>>
>>
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