Hi, to build software with Maven, you have to provide meta information (a pom.xml) to each jar, which is a dependency of your software. In turn, the build system Maven with automatically figure out which jar to fetch from where and in which version. To simplify the creation of Java dependencies for LO and to ease also the packaging of LO extension in Debian/Ubuntu, it would be of much help, if you could ship those pom.xml for this use case with the source. This meta information is easy and quick to generate and the only maintenance overhead is the version number increase at each LO release. You don't need to also use Maven for building LO, you just have to ship one pom.xml for one jar file. Not only Debian/Ubuntu would benefit from this little adjustment, also other projects could use the provided meta information. It would be of course even greater to have the shipped jar files together with the meta information in a online repository, whereas this is not as important as the first issue. Such a repository existed for OpenOffice before they moved to Apache (see http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.openoffice). Thanks! Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?de-0 Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionary databases - http://www.freedict.org
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