[libvirt] [libvirt-java] Upload 0.4.8 to central Maven repository

[Wido den Hollander]

On 09/14/2012 04:59 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>> On 09/13/2012 02:19 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:46:43PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>>>> On 09/10/2012 03:23 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:00:57PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/10/2012 02:29 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>>>>>> any idea how to tell the main maven site to refetch ? Even though we
>>>>>>> added the checksums, http://search.maven.org still don't show 0.4.8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, not a clue. It could be that it reads maven-metadata-local.xml
>>>>>> and sees that lastUpdated hasn't changed, so no need for any futher
>>>>>> searching?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a couple of things for 0.4.9 I want to fix, so when that
>>>>>> comes out, lastUpdated changes and hopefully maven will see that?
>>>>>
>>>>>   yeah ... So what kind of changes do you have in mind ? To be honnest
>>>>> I would like to make a release soon :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Ok, I've been reading some docs and found:
>> * http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html
>> * https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Central+Sync+Requirements
>>
>> When you check the list on the second link it seems that the POM
>> file for libvirt-java is missing the <developers> section which is
>> mandatory now.
>
> I'm sure there is some kind of validation tools available somewhere
> or it's really a bad use of XML :-)
>
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/2.1.3/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.pom
> doesn't seems to have any <developers> section though ...
>

Hmm, indeed. That's odd. I'm not such a Maven guru, I've just been 
searching on the web to find any clue of what went wrong.

>> I'm not sure about these two lines though:
>> * If the project packaging is jar, and the jar file contains java
>> classes, there must be a -javadoc.jar for main artifact.
>> * If the project packaging is jar, and the jar file contains java
>> classes, there must be a -sources.jar for main artifact.
>
>    Well "ant docs" creates and populate a target/javadoc/ so
> we ought to be able to package that as jar somehow
>    And well the source are here too
>
>> I checked the maven-ant-tasks repo and saw they are providing these
>> files:
>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/
>>
>> For now we can simply put a README file in both those JAR files
>> pointing to libvirt.org?
>>
>> You can manually create both these JAR files and see if the central
>> repo fetches them then?
>
>    Looking at the maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3-javadoc.jar example, it seems
> to directly contain the HTML files
>    (cd target/javadoc && jar cvf ../libvirt-java-0.4.9-javadoc.jar .)
> seems to do the trick and
>    jar cvf libvirt-java-0.4.9-sources.jar AUTHORS build.properties \
>    build.xml ChangeLog INSTALL libvirt-java.spec.in LICENCE NEWS \
>    pom.xml.in README.in README src/  test.sh
> to generate a sources one
>
>    I will push those out and checksum those, let's see how it goes,
>

I just wrote a patch for the build.xml, see: 
https://github.com/wido/libvirt-java/commit/bb0dbb09b0991503ab8e1948ce985192dc027d71

$ ant maven

That should also generate a sources and javadoc artifact now.

Wido

> Daniel
>