Обсуждение: Remove obsolete maven-ant-tasks

Dear pgsql-jdbc hackers,

recently, I was trying to recompile postgresql jdbc driver (ver. 1201)
in Fedora Linux from source codes.

I had troubles with maven-ant-tasks package. Fedora forbids installation
from binary files ( ./lib/*.jar ) so we aren't using them. The package
maven-ant-tasks is not available in current release of Fedora. According
to the commit message [1] is the package retired because its
incompatibility with Maven 3. The Maven 2 is still present, but it is
already after its End of Life [2].

It would be nice, if you can remove dependency on maven-ant-tasks.

I was trying to create an patch, but my java skills are limited )-; I
suppose this commit [3] is best place to start.

[1]
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/maven-ant-tasks.git/commit/?id=b3fea86ab90954a44fc363fb0ab349594d9342a8
[2] http://maven.apache.org/
[3]
https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/commit/94bc87e3dde97f08df7d2f31164a1f2348185713

best regards,
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Jozef Mlich <jmlich@redhat.com>
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Red Hat, Inc.

ello Dave,

On Monday 23 of March 2015 12:59:49 Dave Cramer wrote:
> Why do you need to recompile it ?

Thats Fedora/RHEL policy, to provide complete sources (to read the source
or to re-compile).  Maven-ant-tasks is probably just a build-time
dependency, but its similar.

> I think we have a lot more dependencies on maven ant tasks than just
> that one.

We successfully built pgjdbc without maven-ant-task, up to the 9.4-1200
and, as a one of the first actions, our build scripts remove binaries from
pgjdbc tarball since 2006.  But this may not be the same situation for
non-linux platforms..  I'm not java hacker, neither I analyzed the problem
carefully yet..  so thats everything I am able to say atm, sorry.

Thanks, Pavel