Re: [JGIT] Request for help

Jonas Fonseca [off-list ref] wrote:

BTW, what is your opinion of making it a bit easier to import and use
the Maven configuration by putting a pom.xml in the top-level
directory? The actual pom.xml file responsible for building the jgit
library can still live on in jgit-maven/ if that is preferable.

I am also thinking about "mavenizing" the .pgm subproject to make it
easier to browse and search the code from within NetBeans.

Actually, now that we have forked out of the egit.git repository,
I want to refactor the layout of the JGit project to be more maven
like, and have a proper top-level pom to build things.

Unfortunately it seems that nobody can program a proper Maven pom
for a multi-project project unless they are one of the authors
of Maven itself.  I watched the Apache MINA team struggle with it
until the Maven guys wanted to use their code, and fixed their build.

So, this refactoring is waiting for a Maven guru to contribute
an improvement.  Unfortunately they are all busy...

So, to answer your original question, yes, we should make this
better, and patches are welcome.  My own Maven-fu is just not up
to the task.

-- 
Shawn.