On Wed 2009-10-21 at 08:40h, Glidden, Douglass A wrote on ivy-user: > Ivy uses ONLY the revision numbers to compare versions across > repositories-it does not use the "publication date" or any other > metadata
Um, doesn't the latest-time strategy do exactly that (using the file time)? (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/concept.html#latest) > -it would be essentially meaningless, since there is no > guarantee that any given server or your local computer has a > correctly synchronized system clock. If an artifact is found with > the same revision in two different repositories, they are assumed to > be the same and whatever repository is first in the chain will be > used. So in your case, Ivy finds that the most recent version in > each repository is 1.1.7.1; since they are the same, it then > proceeds to download from the first repository in the chain. If two > revisions are different they need to have different revision > numbers. -- Niklas Matthies
