On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 10:40 +0200, Graeme Rocher wrote: > For what it is worth in the new Grails dependency resolution impl > (based on Ivy) we chose to use the standard Ivy repo
Looking at the Grapes source there seems to have been a plan at some stage to use transports other than Ivy and so a decision seems to have been made to have a Grapes cache so as to unify across different transports. In the end only Ivy is ever used so I guess this was a YAGNI situation. I think Grapes should be changed to use Ivy and to use the Ivy cache. Is anyone out there feeling responsible for Grapes? > Cheers > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Russel Winder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just an item of feedback, and I guess a minor irritation. > > > > Between Gradle (which tends to have multiple copies of each and every > > jar it needs), Ivy (which has lots of jars as well), Maven (which tends > > to download the entire universe of jars at any possible opportunity), > > and Grapes which stores jars separately again from anything to do with > > Gradle, Ivy, or Maven, I am ending up with large numbers of copies of > > the same jars. Whilst disc is cheap this really is just profligate. > > > > Given that Gradle and Grapes use Ivy, I don't see why there has to be so > > many copies of the jars, why not just one in the Maven repository and > > one in the Ivy repository? > > > > I can see why there might need to be separate metadata, that's not the > > point at issue, the point is that there should only be one copy of the > > jar for each transport mechanism, not each application. > > > > -- > > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > > Dr Russel Winder Partner > > xmpp: [email protected] > > Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7585 2200, +44 20 7193 9203 > > 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 voip: > > sip:[email protected] > > London SW11 1EN, UK m: +44 7770 465 077 skype: russel_winder > > > > > -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder Partner xmpp: [email protected] Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7585 2200, +44 20 7193 9203 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 voip: sip:[email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK m: +44 7770 465 077 skype: russel_winder
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