Found it, this kind of information is placed under reference->introduction.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Richard Hauswald<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > I'm proud to announce that I managed to build a simple project and my > own repository. But... well, now that its working in some way I'm > trying to understand whats going on. The problem I encounter is that I > don't know the way the ivy documentation should be used. I've noticed > that according to the FAQ a big advantage of ivy is its documentation. > Currently I'm trying to figure out the meaning of the attribute type > of the element artifact under the element publications in ivy.xml > files. Reference docs says: "the type of the published artifact. It's > usually its extension, but not necessarily. For instance, ivy files > are of type 'ivy' but have 'xml' extension". What I need is to > understand the type concept. From what I've researched from the > documentation so far I know that type can be ivy and jar. What I want > to know is what other types may be used. So I had a look at the schema > for ivy xml files: <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string"/> - OK, > its a string. This tells me that I'm free to use any String. So there > must be a nice concept of artifact types. But from now I don't have > any glue where to find the doc on this concept. Of course I'd be happy > if someone can send me a link to the right location but I don't like > bothering a mailing list with newbie questions. So what I'm really > interested in is how the ivy doc is meant to be used or what will I > have to do in order to get extra information from exactly this kind of > points(eq question what is the meaning of attribute xyz and whats its > concept)? > Thanks, > Richard >
