On 11/15/06, Gilles Scokart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When reading some general info about apache (http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#management ) I have seen one of the sentence of The Apache Way : "faithful implementation of standards". What does it means for ivy?
I don't think it means much for Ivy, because there is no real standard in the area of Java dependency management. What are the existing standard (official
standards or de-facto industry standards) related to dependency management? Making a search, I found JSR 277. There is also the defacto standards apt, rpm and maven repository. What else?
OSGi On non java technologies (like apt and rpm) you have also .NET assembly, perl CPAN, ruby gem, and certainly many else. But I don't know if we have to quote such technologies, since they are not easily usable with Java, and Ivy has a focus on java dependency management. Don't you think that such inventory, with description and the its relation
with ivy would have his place on the wiki?
Comparing Ivy with existing technologies and standards is a good thing for users, so that they better know the strength and weaknesses before choosing Ivy. - Xavier Gilles
