James, could you point me to any ASF document that regulates storage of dependencies in the repository, please?
There may or may not be such a document. I'm not really interested in trying to be the "binary police". I just noticed it while adding that project into my latest Eclipse development environment.
we keep those dependencies in the repository to make them easily available. So users that want to check out and compile HttpClient don't have to worry about getting them from somewhere.
I don't really understand what you are saying here. How can someone be "smart enough" to either download a source distribution or checkout the project via svn, but "too dumb" or "lazy" to just download the dependent jars seperately. Sorry, that just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Yes, there is Maven. That's fine as long as it works, but we do not like to be dependent on the availability of the Maven remote repository.
You don't need Maven to use jars on ibiblio (or any one of the other repositories). In fact, I just modified the Ant build script that builds the Struts 1.2.x nightlies. The existing build.xml requires you to download and setup a build.properties that points to all the dependencies. For me, it is a waste of my time. Ant should be smart enough to do it for me. So that's what I did:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/core/branches/STRUTS_1_2_BRANCH/build.xml?rev=160185&view=markup
Scroll down to the "download-dependencies" target.
I figure the JAR names should reflect the actual version of the component, however.
I agree.
TIA
Ortwin Glück, HttpClient project
If you would like me to setup the same "download-dependencies" for httpclient, I'd be happy to help. The example above uses ibiblio, but you can use any url.
If not, then sorry to bother you.
Have a good one.
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James Mitchell wrote:Sorry if this has already been brought up, but I noticed this a while back.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta/commons/proper/httpclient/trunk/lib/ I was under the impression that we are not supposed to keep this kind of stuff in svn....but I could be wrong.
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