update iText @ iBiblio
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Key: MNG-2162
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2162
Project: Maven 2
Type: Wish
Environment: Any
Reporter: Bruno Lowagie
Priority: Trivial
Attachments: pom.xml
I am the project manager of iText, a free Java-PDF library (
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ ).
I often get the remark that the iText version offered at iBiblio is obsolete.
For instance: the most recent version at
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/itext/itext/ is iText1.3.
In the meanwhile we've release 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7
and 1.4.
Who updates iBiblio? Who adds new releases of software to iBiblio? Can I do
this myself?
This was my main question.
Furthermore I have spent four days trying to Mavenize iText.
I wrote my own POM (because the POM at iBiblio is very incomplete); see
attachment.
I won't list all the issues I encountered, just the two main showstoppers:
Making the JAR:
I need to include AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) files and the license TXT files into
the jar.
I see this is a frequently asked (but never answered?) question.
I assume I have to add some exclude/include tag inside the <archive> tag, but I
didn't find any example on how to do this.
Also when I create a jar with a manifest file manually, I get an executable jar;
when I use the POM, a manifest file is created (with extra rubbish), but the
jar isn't executable.
(I tried to copy/paste an example POM with a manifestFile tag, but that tag
wasn't recognized and gave an error.)
Generating the SITE:
I wanted to customize the site that is generated. I was able to change the CSS,
I was able to add links, a menu with items;
I did all kinds of cool but useless stuff, but I was not able to add for
instance a Java Script sequence for Google Ads,
I was not able to add Javascript refering to Amazon books, I was not able to
build a site that looks the way I want it to look.
Unfortunately I can't afford to spend more time on Maven, so I'm not expecting
an answer on these issues.
I'm only asking if and how my library can be updated so that Maven users get
the most recent version of iText.
br,
Bruno
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