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> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:47:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [cbi-dev] [platform-swt-dev] [cdt-dev] swt-binaries and maven
>
>
>
> 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.
> --
> Krzysztof Daniel <
kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx >
> Red Hat
>
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