Open-Source and related Stuff
With newer versions of OpenSSH (8.4p1-2) and rsync (3.2.3+20200903+git9f9240b-4) available for Cygwin, I decided it was time to release a new version of my rsync4j library as well: 3.2.3-1 You only need to update if you are using the library…
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Today, I continued working on my little bootstrapp library for bootstrapping Java applications using Maven dependencies. The main to changes were: Downloading Maven rather than bundling it, decreasing the artifact (and spring-boot-jar) size significantly. Adding experimental support for .deb/.rpm package…
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Maven is a great build tool – once you get used to its XML configuration file and figure what plugins are to be used for what purpose. However, if you only want to build an application from already existing Maven…
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On the weekend, I managed to squeeze in some time to push out a maintenance release for my rsync4j library. No Java code got updated, only the Windows binaries that are bundled with the library’s various artifacts, updating OpenSSH to…
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Just released a new version of my jshell-scripting library. A post on the MOA mailing list, reminded me that I’d forgotten to update the jshell-scripting dependency, leaving a NullPointerException in there from the early days. Instead of just updating to…
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Last week, I accidentally came across the debian-maven-plugin (by Wouter Bosma) on sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/debian-maven/ Since most of my projects are Maven based, I thought this would be great to add to the build process. At the moment, I usually only…
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After sorting out the problem with the MOA Weka package, I could finally concentrate on getting the MOA release out of the door. This time round, I spent time on sorting out the instructions properly, to make further releases in…
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Migrating a non-Maven project to Maven can be a painful process. Especially, when the project has a lot of dependent libraries. Why is that a problem? Java libraries can have generic filenames (logging.jar) or the project renamed them (dropped prefix…
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In order to be able to support more platforms in the future, I refactored my rsync4j library today, turning it from a monolithic library into separate modules: rsync4j-core – the core Java classes that wrap around the rsync binaries, all…
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One thing that I have been missing lately was a nice Java library that provides rsync-like functionality. But I didn’t really find anything suitable, so I decided to write a Java wrapper for it myself, trying to make it as…
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