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

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

Philip Sf username is pdodds

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With kind regards,
Geoffrey
"Geoffrey" <jcs...@ho...> schreef
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> 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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