yes, looks good +1 for automatic download of jars -Manfred
2005/6/21, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First off, thanks to James Mitchell (of the Struts team) who has been > teaching me the wonders of svn:externals. I hope my SVN reorg will > make him proud. :-) > > While James and I were discussing the Struts layout he also mentioned > something interesting. They no longer keep any jar files in their > repository. He has figured out a way to deal with the jar file > dependencies that does *not* require Maven (ie. can be done from Ant.) > > I'm planning on doing something similar as part of the reorg. Check > out the following steps that allow you to build struts 1.2 without > specifying a single jar file in your properties ... > > $svn co > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/core/branches/STRUTS_1_2_BRANCH/ > struts-1.2 > $cd struts-1.2 > $ant download-dependencies release > > Nice! I see no reason to deprive ourselves of the same cool build > process ;-) Also, its possible to build using local jar files if that > is your cup of tea (just don't run the download-dependencies target > and specify the jar file locations in your local props file.) > > sean >
