+1, I don't see the purpose of maintaining ivyrep when we have ibiblio pom,
and if it is not maintained, it should not be used.

Gilles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: mercredi 14 mars 2007 9:38
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Ivyrep
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ivy is still packaged with the ivyrep resolver, which is even used by the
> default settings. The problem is that the official ivy repository is no
> more
> maintained, and I think that people starting using Ivy now would prefer
> using the maven2 repository with their poms, instead of what can be found
> in
> the small ivyrep. Another problem is conflictual namespaces, because
> maven2
> and ivyrep do not share the same naming conventions, it makes it harder to
> use the two together (even if Ivy namespace feature makes it possible).
> 
> So I think we should better use a maven 2 resolver (i.e. ibiblio with
> m2compatible set to true) in the default settings as the default public
> resolver, and deprecate the use of ivyrep without specifying the root.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> - Xavier

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