Do not create a fat jar with dependencies.

[crea-doo]

It's not necessary to ship dependencies with the lib.

Changes taken from cvanorman#1 and msteigenberger@b9b36cb

[crea-doo]

Found out that this issue also duplicates #44...

[kaikreuzer]

Indeed, I had this wish much earlier ;-)
FTR: In openHAB, we are maintaining this fork, which had been prepared by @cvanorman - I would hope to switch back to the official build again one day, but there doesn't seem much activity here anymore, which doesn't make me too confident...

[andyrozman]

Product is quite stable, so why should there be changes?

@kaikreuzer did you make any changes in the code, that would be worth having here?

[madhephaestus]

Hey! This looks great, and I apologise for being out of the loop this past year. I will have time this summer, maybe we can work together to unify the changes and get a new release out?

[kaikreuzer]

Product is quite stable, so why should there be changes?

Then you do not use it enough :-)
We were blocked by (non exhaustive list): #23, #28, #44, #60, #72, #73, #95, #96

I will have time this summer, maybe we can work together to unify the changes and get a new release out?

@madhephaestus Sounds great, it would be awesome to revive this project again together. I would mainly like to invite @cvanorman as he prepared all the changes in the openHAB fork and should be able to provide PRs against the official repo as well.

[crea-doo]

I also have to say that I appreciate the work done so far but there are also several issues that should be solved e.g. #97 ;-)

@madhephaestus: A new release soon sounds good to me - also would contribute to it :-)

[madhephaestus]

@crea-doo @kaikreuzer @andyrozman I pulled together the outstanding PR's and made a release of 3.13.0 I have also created a development branch for receiving PR's in the future, as id like to have this look a bit more like gitflow. Hows this sound for a starting point?

[kaikreuzer]

Thanks @madhephaestus, definitely a good starting point!

A few comments about the 3.13.0 release:

1. Maven Central lists Apache license for this project - according to License information is missing in the repo #28 (comment), we should have LGPL, though.
2. The generated MANIFEST.MF has mandatory package-imports for com.sun.jna.platform.win32and org.apache.commons.net.telnet - I think both would have to be optional only.
3. You might want to close/clean-up https://github.com/NeuronRobotics/nrjavaserial/milestone/1.

[crea-doo]

I try to solve number 2 and provide a PR soon...