[Building Sakai] Building Sakai on MacOS X Server

[Aaron Zeckoski]

The quick summary is that using a scope other than provided in
dependency management causes that dependency to fail when used in any
poms that inherit the DM. If you want to know more details about the
failure then the previous threads on sakai-dev have some pretty good
ones. Here is the issue ticket:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2919

It is a known bug and this was known when the issue was discussed last
time but the community vote was to support 2.0.6. If you would like to
spearhead a vote to change the required version of maven in the poms
and update the documentation to explain to OSX users how to upgrade
maven then I think it is worth starting a new thread about it. I am
pretty sure this needs to wait until after 2.6 is fully released and
would have to be maintained separately from the 2.6.x code as well.

-AZ


On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Stephen Swinsburg
<s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sure. I'm still away though. After the previous issues I thought someone may
> have already updated the poms. I'll do it when I get back in a few days if
> no one else gets to it first.
>
> One point I'd like to raise, if the issue is that the scope cannot be
> inherited from the project's main pom in Maven 2.0.6, ie from the
> dependencyManagement block, and if this is a bug in Maven, then we need to
> vote to use a newer Maven version and not support workarounds for bugs. I'm
> not sure if it is a bug in the old versions or a feature from the later
> versions (and can't look it up, the net connection here is too dodgy).
>
> +1 for a vote!
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 18/04/2009, at 10:24 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>
>> Stephen,
>> As you are the maintainer of this project, could you please update it
>> to work with maven 2.0.6. It is a small change and until the community
>> can vote to move support to a higher version of maven the trunk of
>> sakai needs to build with 2.0.6. I can atest to this being a pain
>> since I hit this problem first but asking everyone to upgrade was
>> rejected as a solution at the time by the community.
>>
>> We could potentially vote on upgrading the supported maven version but
>> until then this should really be fixed.
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Stephen Swinsburg
>> <s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tony,
>>> If you update your Maven it should build. This project had been reworked
>>> for
>>> later versions of Maven.
>>> As a general comment regarding updating Maven (as this issue came up last
>>> week as well), I don't see why we need to rely on an older version of
>>> Maven
>>> (ie 2.0.6). Manually updating it on a Mac is simple. We should keep up to
>>> date with this as we do with the other major dependencies like Tomcat and
>>> JVM.
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Steve
>>> ---
>>> Steve Swinsburg
>>> Portal Systems Developer
>>> Centre for e-Science
>>> Lancaster University
>>> Lancaster
>>> LA1 4YT
>>>
>>> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
>>> phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870
>>> On 18/04/2009, at 4:38 AM, Tony Mendoza Rosa wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The Build Procedure of Sakai version 2.5.x failed while trying to
>>>  Building
>>> Sakai Common API Composite Component. At this point the SAKAI Deployment
>>> stops because it can't find package org.hibernate, package
>>> org.apache.commons.logging, package org.sakaiproject.api.common.type,
>>> package org.sakaiproject.id.cover, and package
>>> org.springframework.orm.hibernate3. Attached to this mail you will find
>>> the
>>> details of the errors.
>>>
>>> OS: Mac OS X Server 10.5.6
>>> Hardware:  Dual PPC G5
>>>
>>> Maven Version: 2.0.6
>>> Java Version:
>>> java version "1.5.0_16"
>>> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-284)
>>> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-133, mixed mode)
>>>
>>> Tomcat Version:  5.5.26
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony Mendoza Rosa
>>> University of Puerto Rico
>>> Rio Piedras Campus
>>>
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>> Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz at vt.edu)
>> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University
>> [http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/]
>> Sakai Fellow - [http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/]
>
>



-- 
Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz at vt.edu)
Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University
[http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/]
Sakai Fellow - [http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/]