Re: m2 developers rfc: The assembly plugin ans thirdparty installation builders

2005-11-22 Thread John Allen
Vincent, Thanks for your work on this, it works a treat :) There's a trivial patch required to fix report download URLs but otherwise we're there. Thanks again for your efforts. Cheers, John WDYT about this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1643 Thanks. Cheers, Vincent 2005/11/19, Vi

Re: m2 developers rfc: The assembly plugin ans thirdparty installation builders (REPOST)

2005-11-21 Thread Vincent Siveton
WDYT about this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1643 Thanks. Cheers, Vincent 2005/11/19, Vincent Siveton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I totally agree with Dan: an installer is a kind of archiver. > So, we need to create an InstallerArchiver class and implement > createArchive(). > > I thi

Re: m2 developers rfc: The assembly plugin ans thirdparty installation builders (REPOST)

2005-11-19 Thread Vincent Siveton
Hi, I totally agree with Dan: an installer is a kind of archiver. So, we need to create an InstallerArchiver class and implement createArchive(). I think we could easily update the assembly plugin to support installer feature. In the assembly descriptor, we just need to add new format (eg nsi, in

Re: m2 developers rfc: The assembly plugin ans thirdparty installation builders (REPOST)

2005-11-18 Thread dan tran
Hi John, I have special interest in making a assembly out of some type installer aswell. So I will answer base on what have worked on maven-assembly-plugin First, from my impression, plexus-archiver is interface we want to implement for installers ( it is just an another kind of archiver). So the

m2 developers rfc: The assembly plugin ans thirdparty installation builders (REPOST)

2005-11-18 Thread John Allen
Hi, This is a reposting looking for comments from m2 developers. I am in the process of writing a NullSoft Installer plugin and wish to discuss its design and usage in respect to the assembler plugin. The assembly plugin has been designed to operate in a stand-alone fashion, firing off the pro