What about including ant.jar and then making a build file that can do all the 
magic we need for downloading and arranging things?

No matter the problem, Ant is the Swiss Army knife solution :)


> On Feb 19, 2015, at 04:17, Jan Høydahl (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>    [ 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6259?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14327147#comment-14327147
>  ] 
> 
> Jan Høydahl commented on LUCENE-6259:
> -------------------------------------
> 
> What about "java -jar get.jar deps.txt"
> That would be 20 lines of code :)
> The same program could download javadocs too..
> 
>> Remove dependencies from binary releases
>> ----------------------------------------
>> 
>>                Key: LUCENE-6259
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6259
>>            Project: Lucene - Core
>>         Issue Type: Improvement
>>           Reporter: Ryan Ernst
>> 
>> In LUCENE-6247, one idea discussed to decrease the size of release artifacts 
>> was to remove the inclusion of dependencies from binary releases.  These jar 
>> files increase the size of the binary releases a lot, and the size is mostly 
>> in a couple modules (eg benchmark and spatial).
>> I think most people consume lucene through maven. For those that do use the 
>> binary release, we can still make pulling the dependencies for these modules 
>> easy. We can add a generated README file in each module that has 
>> dependencies, with instructions indicating they need to download the 
>> dependencies, and then give the list of jar files they need to download, 
>> with exact links to maven (which we can extract from ivy?).
> 
> 
> 
> --
> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
> (v6.3.4#6332)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
> 

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]

Reply via email to