[Proj4j] Upload to Maven central

[Tom Arnold]

> Is keeping the lib updated an ongoing manual process, or can it be
automated as part of a build?

I think it can be done either way. My goal for now is to do a one-time
upload to get something out there. I'm thinking it will be easier to make
it automated once the project moves to GitHub. For example, Travis CI (
http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/getting-started/) is a service integrated
with GitHub and does a build for every commit, so you could use this to
upload snapshots to central automatically (more on this below).

> I guess the version # in the pom acts as a unique key, so there's no
problem pushing new versions as long as it is incremented appropriately...

Pretty much!

A nightly build from trunk would be published as a snapshot; snapshots
automatically have a timestamp added to the version to make them unique,
and it's considered bad practice to depend on snapshots when you go to do a
release. I think Travis CI could be setup to automatically upload these
snapshot builds to Maven central. This would be a way for people to get the
latest version of the library without building it themselves.

Every once in awhile someone should cut a release and upload to central.
The version number for the release would have to be incremented. I think
this can be mostly automated; perhaps by using the maven-release-plugin.

Thanks,
Tom

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Happy for you to do it!
>
> Is keeping the lib updated an ongoing manual process, or can it be
> automated as part of a build? I guess the version # in the pom acts as a
> unique key, so there's no problem pushing new versions as long as it is
> incremented appropriately...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Tom Arnold <tom9729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> I've never done it, but it looks like it should be pretty
>> straightforward. Sonatype has a guide here:
>> http://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html
>>
>> Basically you need to make an account and submit a JIRA ticket for proj4j
>> to be added. Someone will review in a couple of days and then give you
>> access to upload the library.
>>
>> Do you want me to go ahead and do this, or would you rather take care of
>> it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tom
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Seems like a great idea!  What's involved with doing this?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Tom Arnold <tom9729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any plan to upload the current version of proj4j to Maven
>>>> central?
>>>>
>>>> This would make it easier to use in projects that cannot easily add
>>>> 3rdparty repos.
>>>>
>>>> I'm willing to help out if possible.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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