[Maven-plugins-developer] Request for new project: Maven IzPack plugin

[Geoffrey <jcs...@ho...>]

Hi,

Philip and me are working on a maven izpack plugin.
Can we host it with the SF maven plugins?

My SF username is ge0ffrey
I don't know philips yet.

With kind regards,
Geoffrey
----- Original Message ----- 
Hi Philip,

I am going to try to integrate your code and mine, but we need a repo to
better collaborate.
Do you mind to host on maven-plugins on SourceForge?

With kind regards,
Geoffrey

----- Original Message ----- 

Heres what I have so far... its pretty basic...

Simply put it just takes the pom for as much as possible,  it didn't attach
as pregoals so far, yesterday I dumped a default template in so that it
would work if you didn't provide one,  also it depends on an external
installation of IZPack which I though would make it a little easier though
if you can get izpack's compiler on ibiblio then it would probably make more
sense to have it as a dependency.

I downloaded and had a look at yours,  great minds really do think alike :)
I think you did a better job with the goal structure,  though I need to give
it a go to see how the pregoals are handled since mine is used in a
multiproject build (I don't think it'll be a problem), the property names
should probably have maven in them,  the only bits I thought we might want
to take from mine were the PDF introduction, if found in the template, also
you might want to have the ${maven.izpack.config} have a config directory,
in your example the installers and the installer.xml end up in the same
place,  over here I have a cruisecontrol publisher picking up from the
installer directory so I needed the staging installer.xml in a different
directory.

Anyway let me know what you think...

Cheers

Philip

Philip Dodds

-----Original Message-----

Hi Philip,

Great minds think alike, because I did the same :)

Do you plan to open source your plugin and if so under which license?
I am planning to do so with mine, preferable ASF (but might need to be GPL
because IzPAck is GPL).

Maybe we can collaborate?
I have some time this weekend to work on it.

With kind regards,
Geoffrey

----- Original Message ----- 

> Hi Julien,
>
> I wrote a Maven IzPack plugin :)
> It creates IzPack installers.
>
> The plugin (with a few generated docs) and an example is downloadable
from:
> http://users.pandora.be/geoffrey/izpack/
> The plugin code is still alpha of course.
>
> Usage instructions
> ============
>
> - Install Maven 1.0.2, see http://maven.apache.org
> - Drop maven-izpack-plugin-0.1.jar in <MAVEN_HOME>/plugins
> - Drop izpack-standalone-compiler-3.7.1.jar in a newly created
> <USER_HOME>\.maven\repository\izpack\jars
> - CVS checkout http://networktools.sf.net or any other maven project like
it
> and run in it's directory:
> maven izpack:jar-installer
>
> Done :) Take a look at target/izpack/*-installer.jar.
> For the record: Maven
> Maven rocks.
>
> TODO
> =====
> Shortcuts in start menu, bundle JVM in a windows installer exe, ...
>
> Hosting and licensing
> ===============
>
> I give up any and all copyrights to the code I inputted, so it can be ASF
or
> GPL or ...
>
> vmassol and trygvis were intersted in it on IRC, but as IzPack isn't BSD
or
> ASF, the plugin can't be hosted on apache:
> http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/index.html
> which is a real pitty, because it would be real good exposure for IzPack
if
> the plugin is there.
> As I looked for months before I came across a wonderfull open source
product
> as IzPack, I think it needs a lot more exposure.
> No chance in ASF'ing or BSD'ing IzPack?
> In that case, they suggested
> 1) placing the plugin on http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/
> or 2) hosting the plugin  next to IzPack (even better) and maybe get a
link
> on http://maven.apache.org/reference/3rdparty.html
>
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
>
> > Hi Geoffrey;
> >
> > > Is someone working on a maven.apache.org plugin for IzPack?
> >
> > I'm afraid that nobody is working on this :-/
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
>