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From: Christian Schneider <chris@die-schneider.net>
Subject: [Discuss] New leaner parent pom?
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:02:49 +0200
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I think it is pretty hard to work with the current Aries parent pom.
https://github.com/apache/aries/blob/trunk/parent/pom.xml

My main issue with it is the very special definitions for the 
maven-bundle-plugin. It is difficult to set up a project and it is very 
easy to
end up with a broken Manifest.

So for aries-rsa I created a new parent pom and just took the necessary 
minimum from the aries parent.
https://github.com/apache/aries-rsa/blob/master/parent/pom.xml

Especially for the maven-bundle-plugin I used the approach to leave the 
parent at defaults. I also used the include to be able to extract the 
bundle config in a separate bnd file.
This resulted in very small poms as well as bnd.bnd files in the 
individual projects.
e.g.:
https://github.com/apache/aries-rsa/tree/master/topology-manager

So I would like to discuss to create a new parent pom for aries (like 
3.0.0-SNAPSHOT). The main thing would be to use similar 
maven-bundle-plugin settings like above but we could also revisit the other
plugins to see if we can make them simpler.

Christian

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