Unless there is objection, we'll commit hbase-1433 in the next day or so. This contribution by Kay Kay adds ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/) to our build for resolving dependencies. Whereas previous all dependencies were checked-in under $HBASE_HOME/lib, instead, ivy will pull from remote internet repositories all dependencies listed/needed by the hbase project on ant build (It keeps a local cache so pulls a dependency once-only). The move to ivy realigns our build system with that of our parent hadoop -- it uses ivy resolving dependencies. Ivy also has strong affinity to Maven and will make it easier for us publishing hbase builds up to a Maven repository, e.g. the Apache Maven repository (Our parent project currently does this).
This ok with all? Thanks, St.Ack
