I can certainly help out as I'm having to shoehorn in as7 into brew to get it into openshift builds. On 5/22/11 11:51 PM, Marek Goldmann wrote:

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 08:51 +0200, Marek Goldmann wrote: Awesome! I explained to Marek on IRC a little experiment I did recently. If you look at the dependency tree that Marek generated: https://gist.github.com/988216 It's an incredibly daunting task. The fact that all of those dependencies need to be packaged before you have a jboss-as package to play with will make it very difficult to attract people to the project to help out. How about if we could package a minimal AS7 - just the core and web module? If the dependency list was much smaller, we could get to a very basic jboss-as package much more quickly and encourage folks to try it out. Here was my attempt at a minimal build: https://github.com/markmc/jboss-as/commits/minimal-beta3 and the resulting dependencies: https://gist.github.com/988985 It's quite an effort to do this and is very brittle. I'm sure those patches wouldn't apply any more. Is there any chance that the build could be made modular (as well as the runtime being modular)? e.g. if the JBoss modules were moved from the build/ directory into the the maven modules where the modules are defined, then all you would need to do to disable a module is remove it from the root POM. Disabling the jaxrs module is a good example: https://github.com/markmc/jboss-as/commit/b58aed5d9611193171611229921684d... Cheers, Mark.