Re: ship Maven meta information to ease creation of LO plugins with Maven

Hi Sebastian,

May be this maven plugin for building LO extensions could interest you:
https://github.com/cbosdo/maven-ooo-plugin

I didn't touch this code since ages, but if it can help you, feel free
to patch it ;)

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Cedric

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 21:46 +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
> 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
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