On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:57 +0200, Ortwin Gl�ck wrote: > > Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > Odi, > > > > I have not looked at the proposed solution, so I may be wrong here, but > > I think it _should_ simply prepopulate the <HTTPCLIENT_HOME>\lib from an > > external repository (such as ibiblio). If it is indeed the case I > > personally see no problem with removing dependencies from SVN. I will > > not insist, though > > > > Oleg > > Yes, that's what it does. Maybe that I am missing something, but I have > no idea what should be the benefit of that. >
Explicit dependency management for one (for those who prefer Ant to Maven, like myself). > 1. The libs are in the repo for a *reason*: availability and > convenience. If you remove them we loose this availability and > convenience. Replacing them with a stupid download script makes thinks > worse, not better. I see it differently, but as far as I am concerned this whole thing is a non-issue. Should James decide to submit a patch, I _personally_ will be quite happy to vote +1 for it. At the same time, I'll have no problems of what so ever to move on, should you veto it with -1. > > 2. We don't need an additional Ant target to download deps. It > duplicates knowledge from the project.xml. I don't want to maintain > knowledge twice. This is error prone. Remember we had out-of-date docs > regarding deps recently? Maven can download the deps that are listed in > project.xml. Nobody needs Ant when there is Maven. [quietly and humbly] I do. For such a simple-minded person like me, every Maven deployment should come with Dion included. [ducking and hiding] Anyways, I would rather see all this time and efforts spent on Jakarta Http(Client) API redesign Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
