I do a fair bit of python tooling that invokes Java programs. Currently I
bundle the Jars with the python code; yuck. What would be neat is to have a
classpath automatically assembled by pointing to a Maven repository and passing
it a list of coordinates that are needed. The Jars would be downloaded into a
staging area and used to construct the classpath:
Repository repo = MavenRepository("http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/";)
repo.add("com.acme.foo", "bar", "1.3.2")
repo.add("com.zulu.car", "cdr", "1.4.0")
classpath = repo.generateClasspath()
# spawn java subprocess
repo.destroy()
It would be cool if the transitive dependencies were computed and used as well.
Is there anything like that out there? Does this even makes sense to do?
Regards,
Alan
