[hibernate-dev] Maven is not foobar, just fybar

[Steve Ebersole]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Hi Chris and Steve,
>
> I took a look at hibernate3 head today because Chris was claiming mvn 
> eclipse:eclipse were broken.
>
> The short answer to that is that yes - maybe, it actually works 
> (except for some "funny" things)
>
> I've updated http://hibernate.org/422.html to describe the few things 
> I had to do to get maven to work on my new machine;
> and it worked pretty well.
>
> svn co hibernate3, mvn eclipse:eclipse and I was basically ready to roll.
>
> But I did find some issues here in no particular order:
> Why is checkstyle_checks.xml put in resources and thus end up int the 
> classpath ? Previously it was just in the root of hibernate dir.
I'd ask why checkstyle_checks.xml is there at all ;)

> Why is the etc directory not inside hibernate-core as something that 
> is put on the project as a class directory ? With this setup you would 
> have to change the generated ide configurations every time to include 
> it on the classpath. Without it the tests and other thing that dpeends 
> on log4j and a cfg.xml doesn't run.
Because I don't want them on the classpath ;)  The are in *etc*; they 
are simply that, "extras".
>
> Is ther no way to avoid having xml-api.jars and other 
> not-always-relevant jars to be added to the classpath ?
We probably could just remove them as we now require jdk >= 1.4
>
> The documentation/ is "annoying" since you can't have both the docs 
> and the tutorial included in eclipse
don't understand this one.  can you be more explicit?  documentation/ 
itself is nothing more than an aggregation project: it aggregates 
tutorial/ and manual/