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[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:24 +0200, Per-Olof Norén wrote:

Hi Per-Olof,

Thanks for the interest :D

> We are talking about separating the java build from the postgis build, 
> right?

Not necessarily; the aim is more to find a tool/mechanism to build the
JDBC driver on both Windows and Unix platforms.

> Ant is good, a far better choice than make, but there is also maven.
> Given my recent (successful) attempt to use hibernate-spatial with 
> postgis using maven, I'd opt for maven.

I've had a quick look at this, and AFAICT Maven is framework that sits
above the build process to manage project building for you (in other
words, it still needs a build tool such as Ant working underneath it).
I've done a reasonable amount of Java coding to know how Ant works, but
not Maven. I would suggest the best thing to do would be to write a
proposal and post it onto the list for comment.

> However, before volonteering, I'd like to nose around the sources 
> alittle and I'd also much appriciate any pointers to previous 
> discussions, being a list newbie :-)

Markus and Norman are the main Java users; I'd suggest browsing the
source and then posting questions back to the list for someone more
knowledgeable to comment upon.


HTH,

Mark.

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