Re: OSGi and Maven

[Robert B. D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Brian Wellington<bwe...@xb...> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>
>> firstly, kudos for dnsjava :-)
>>
>> i'd like to be able to use dnsjava more easily downstream in maven and
>> OSGi environments. for maven this means uploading releases to the
>> central repository. for OSGi this means including some additional meta
>> data in the META-INF.
>>
>> the easiest way to achieve both would be to create a suitable maven
>> build for the current release and then maintain it in addition to the
>> existing ant one.  there are two ways i could go about this: either
>> forking downstream the source of each release with added maven build
>> or by supplying patches for an upstream maven build here and then
>> arranging for a maven synchronization repository.
>
> If I added stuff to the dnsjava repository for every external framework that
> wanted it, there would be a ton of what would end up unmaintained code that
> people would report bugs to me about.
>
> As there aren't very many releases (there hasn't been one in almost 18
> months, and aren't likely to be more than one in the near future), forking
> downstream for each release doesn't seem like all that much work.

fine

- robert