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Re: [cbi-dev] [platform-swt-dev] [cdt-dev] swt-binaries and maven
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To make it clear:
The plugin was activly developed. But there had been about 25 forks (or even more). Most of them are still alive at github. Only the original project lead was inactive, did not merge pull requests etc. Thats the reason so many forks exists.
Actually at the moment I am very active to become an maven-nar guru. Someone who is knowing the deep aspects of the code. The main reason is that I am the project lead of "maven for php" and there is need to compile/use php binaries and php extension binaries (dll/so) with maven. There are others being very active in the past three years.
We are currently doing our homework (merging the most recent forks).
Do I understand you? You are saying that there is interest from eclipse foundation and that we should first become a new project in incubation phase (for one or two years)? I personally did not ever lead an eclipse project. So hopefully there will be some kind of mentor leading us through the terms of conditions for eclipse projects :)
If this is correct I will send this offer to the community and we will see if they agree.
Greetings
Martin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Krzysztof Daniel
<kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:02 +0200, Martin Eisengardt wrote:
> Of course this does not match the current SWT-binaries project
structure and you might need some refactoring. However I think this
could be done in future. If you choose to use maven-nar-plugin one day
it does not mean to migrate swt today.
This is not the simplest path. To migrate anything to Eclipse Foundation
you need to gather some community around your tool [1], and given that
the plugin itself was not quite actively developed, it does sound like a
risk for a project to rely on it. My concerns are:
a. will it suite projects needs
b. is there someone who knows how to use/fix it?
In the CBI, we are in the huge need of a good native build of SWT,
filesystem, network support and launchers. Currently we use
maven-ant-runner, which has many limitations, and were unable to find
out a better solution, which is a big opportunity for the NAR plugin -
patches for the mentioned project would definitely help nar...
[1]
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Process_Guidelines/What_is_Incubation
PS. Let's limit further discussion only to cbi-dev.
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Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat
