Hi Jason
I got the URL of the original guide from Brett this morning. Using
that, I have set up my project as a multi module build.
It is early days for me on my project so all I really needed was
1) A single point from where I can kick off a complete system wide build
2) A means of logically linking my artifacts into a coherent unit.
3) Project inheritance
It works and I am really pleased with the result. I am liking M2
I know that you will have to sort out various best practices issues
before writing documentation in some detail but I would like to suggest
that you do at least publish a "How to" of some kind so that while you
decide what the best practices are, people can still go ahead and use
the feature in whatever way they think best for now. The old docs were
quite enough to get me going.
I did read yours and Jesse's comments in your links. Without getting
into too much detail, I think that I agree wholeheartedly with Jesse
that a flat structure comprised of a set of artifacts of equal standing
is a great way to do this.
regards
Stephen
Following
Jason van Zyl wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 08:54 +0000, Stephen Cowx wrote:
Hi
I found the "Getting Started guide" in SVN and looked through the commit
history but I couldn't a version which had the multi project info in
it. Admittedly I looked at the first and last entries and about 10
random entries in between before I figured that it might never have been
in there anyway. If it was somewhere else in the source tree then there
is almost no chance I will be able to find it.
If there is anyone on this list who can provide a very quick bullet list
of how to implement multi projects in maven 2.0 it would help me a great
deal. I am familiar with Maven 1 so it can be fairly direct and to the
point.
It is specifically not in there until some issues regarding best
practices are resolved
http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36790
Jesse also has some thoughts:
http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36796
What's there in the old guide will get you going and I can pop something
into the doco but things like version management and directory
structuring in multi project (really multi module) builds will crop up
as the first questions when setting up your own project so I was trying
to get some of these issues resolved before writing the guide for multi
project builds.
