On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:07:11 -0600, Michael Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what about writing a custom ant task that gets the jars from ibiblio > or wherever they are from?
We hardly need a custom task. Ant already has the <get> task: http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/get.html This is what Maven-generated Ant builds use. -- Martin Cooper > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:51:24 -0800 (PST), David Graham > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I don't have a problem with tossing the Maven stuff. However, I > > > believe we do have some Maven mavens in our midst who likely feel > > > otherwise. This might sound odd, but perhaps, if we do have people who > > > are interested in actively pursuing Maven, we should move the Maven > > > stuff to contrib until such time as it provides a working replacement > > > for our Ant build system? > > > > IMO, maintaining two build systems is only going to make things worse so > > we should probably stick with Ant. The key thing about Maven is that it > > downloads jars for me so I don't have to waste my time doing it manually. > > Of course, we don't need that feature if we just store the jars in svn > > like any sane project would ;-). We can't store some of the non-free jars > > in svn but at least those would be the exception and downloading one or > > two jars is better than 10 (or whatever we're up to now). > > > > The projects I work on in Commons and my work projects are all buildable > > immediately after downloading them from cvs. Some of them acheive that by > > using Maven, some by just storing the dependencies in cvs. I think that > > should be Struts' goal as well. > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Martin Cooper > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
