The local repository is a cached based repository. The frequency of the updates is specified in the ivysettings file. Check out <cache><ttl> elements (Personally I specify all my cache settings to be in my "target" folder, and in eclipse set the resolve to occur within the workspace)
How are you publishing your sources in ivy ? Eclipse will retrieve them if you publish them properly. Steve On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:56 AM, David Sills <dsi...@datasourceinc.com>wrote: > All: > > I love working with Eclipse and ivyIDE with 2 exceptions, and I wonder > if I am just missing something. > > My environment consists of a company-wide repository, where I place the > results of building my projects, and of course a local repository, which > sometimes though not always has folders for some of the same projects. > As an example, let's assume that my project, say, "xxx-encryption" > depends on "xxx-common". All is well and Ivy does well with it. > > However, I add some functionality to "xxx-common", up the build number, > and rebuild. Great. Using Eclipse, I resolve "xxx-encryption" and it > gets the correct updated value for the version number. In order to > update the "xxx-encryption" Ivy files, I build "xxx-encryption" even > though there have not been any changes to the project itself, only its > dependencies. The company-wide repository's version of ivy.xml is > correctly updated with the appropriate dependency on the new version of > "xxx-common". However, the local repository's version of ivy.xml is not! > This means that when I have a third project, say "xxx-web", that depends > on "xxx-encryption" and try to resolve that project, the old (now > incorrect) version of "xxx-common" is taken, since the local > repository's version is read first if it exists. > > What am I missing? I find myself constantly manually updating the files > in the local repository in order to get the transitive dependencies > right. > > Also, can someone explain to me why my Ivy container in ivyIDE doesn't > allow me to put source code locations on the JARs? That would be hugely > helpful in debugging, especially in a situation where I have a lot of > smaller projects that depend on each other and I assemble them as needed > for a specific requirement. Or do I have to create source JAR files for > each project using Ivy to make that happen? And will it happen if I do > make source JAR files? > > Many thanks for anyone who can answer either or both of these questions. > > David Sills > >
