From: "Torsten Curdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> [snip]
>
> > What about having each needed jar as a property, and have a setup task
check
> > if those file are effectively present, and if not, downloading them for
a
> > known location ?
> > This way, someone already having those jars locally just have to set
those
> > properties on the command line, and someone not having them will
> > automatically download them ? Yes, it requires a net connection, but
from
> > where did you get your initial source tarball anyway ?
>
> That's actually what I meant ;)
>
> ...check if the jar are there if not download them from a specified
> location.
>
> But it's true. The "I aggree" button could be a problem...

But if you make the build "interactive" ie ask the user to type "agree", the
problem is solved.
I would be very happy to use this method with my projects, but AFAIK
{Jakarta|XML}Apache don't have prebuilt jars to download yet.
Why not create a repository with only the jars, not the whole distribution?

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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   (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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