This actually sounds a lot like Ivy to me. We used jpackage to accomplish a good portion of this back at redhat, but at Peopleclick, we are moving towards an ivy-centered approach.
Ryan On 2/20/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will it use a maven repository? This sounds like a lot of the > functionality in Maven. Whether you like Maven or not, the fact that > there are large repositories of jars is great, so I hope your friend > will take advantage of that. > > David Tanzer wrote: > > A friend of mine is currently developing a program to manage Java > > project resources (jars and others) called "gc resource repository" > > (gc-rr): > > > > http://dev.guglhupf.net/commons/rr/index.html > > > > Some of the features are: > > > > * Central resource repository to share resources between multiple > > projects. > > * Needed resource are downloaded and stored in a local repository. > > * Dependencies between resources are solved. > > * Setup the classpath with all needed resources (jars). > > * Start java progams with the needed resources. > > * Ant integration to setup the classpath. > > * Modular ant build script support > > * Eclipse classpath builder to setup the classpath in eclipse. > > > > You may want to take a look at it. It is distributed under the Apache > > License, and I guess I could convince Rene Pirringer (the main developer > > of gc-rr) to contribute it to Apache Harmony if this is desired. > > > > Best Regards, > > David Tanzer > > > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:01 +0000, George Harley wrote: > >> Hi Alexey, > >> > >> The "usetimestamp" attribute of Ant's "get" task kind of offers this > >> functionality. Setting the attribute value to "true" means that the > >> download only proceeds if the local copy of the resource is missing or > >> stale. > >> > >> There is more information on this at > >> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/get.html > >> > >> Best regards, > >> George > >> IBM UK > >> > >> > >> > >> Alexey Petrenko wrote: > >>>> Well, it would be nice. However I don't like build scripts that depend on > >>>> network. > >>>> > >>> Yes, there should be the possibility to download needed jars once and > >>> forget about network. > >>> > >>> -- > >> Alexey A. Petrenko > >>> Intel Middleware Products Division > >>> > -- Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
