Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Hi all,
I just found (via TSS) Ivy [1], a BSD-licensed Ant task to download dependencies from artifact repositories, including the Maven repo at ibiblio.
I've already seen a number of Ant extensions that aim to provide this feature, but that one looked particuarily interesting to me as this is the first one where dependencies are not describes in the Ant file itself.
What that means is that we can create the list of jars to download from our jars.xml or the gump descriptor, and have them automatically downloaded from the ibiblio repo. Very few modifications on the current build are needed.
That could allow to really reduce the size of both our distro and our SVN repository.
WDYT?
Sylvain
+1
