Howard, I looked at this, and I don't know if Hivemind really want's to go there. In order to use Ivy, you need the ivy.jar file available to Ant. As I understand it, distrubting non-apache jar's with Hivemind is not allowed, I think depending on Ivy would complicate the initial build for new developers. At this time, I would not suggest using it.
However, as an alternative, I would suggest that when Maven2 matures, that we investigate using the Ant dependency manager tasks being produced by the Maven2 team. They appear to have the functionality needed, and they are apache software so they could be distributed with Hivemind. No doubt they will eventually make it into Ant. The documentation is available here http://maven.apache.org/maven2/ant-tasks.html Richard -----Original Message----- From: Howard Lewis Ship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Use Ivy to download from Maven? Does anyone have some free cycles to look into using Ivy to handle dependency download management? http://ivy.jayasoft.org/ It looks like a much better solution than the quicky Grabber Ant task, even if it means having some kind of external files defining the dependencies (not necessarily a bad thing, since a dependencies report, ala Maven, could be generated). -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant Creator, Jakarta Tapestry Creator, Jakarta HiveMind Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support and project work. http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
