[Building Sakai] Abundance of pom.xml files in 2.9

[Michael Osterman]

Cheers, Steve! That sorted us out!

It still would be nice if someone were to document deployment strategies
w/r/t the various build configurations and approaches. I'd be happy to
start a doc, but I don't understand it myself. :/

-Mike


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mike
>
> You are probably best taking the relevant -all branch or tag and
> forgetting about the binary indies, which are what the deploy poms do. Then
> the source layout is the same as what you are used to. Note that some
> services are now in edu-services and in common.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 23/07/2013, at 13:00, Michael Osterman <ostermmg.sakai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We're doing a pretty big jump from 2.6 to 2.9 this summer, and are having
> some issues with our 2.9 build from source, likely because we missed a lot
> in the intervening years. :/ Specifically, we seem to be missing the
> CourseManagementAPI, which seems like it may be provided by
> framework-shared-deploy/pom.xml. Will test that theory in the a.m.
>
> That specific bit aside, we're wanting to better understand the new source
> layout and best practices for building a custom Sakai 2.9 from source.
>
> In 2.6, we had the following before doing an svn pull and build:
> .externals
> pom.xml
> kernel-deploy/
>
> All of these were tuned to enable only the modules/tools we wanted
>
> Now, it looks like there are a handful of new directories in addition to
> what we were accustomed in 2.6, according to
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-2.9.x/:
> core-deploy/
> framework-shared-deploy/
> jstl-shared-deploy/
>
> Looking at the Vula 2.9.x build, it looks like one wants to include those
> 3 new directories and customize the core-deploy directory to enable/disable:
> http://source.cet.uct.ac.za/svn/sakai/vula/branches/vula-2.9.x/.externals
>
> Does anyone know where to find any documentation on customizing ones own
> build via the pom.xml files for 2.9? I can't seem to find anything written
> down anywhere.
>
> Barring that, as such documentation may not exist, can someone provide a
> thumbnail sketch of best practices for building from source in 2.9 with
> regard to modifying the root pom.xml and those within the now four
> sub-directories?
>
> Cheers!
> Mike
>
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