I'll have to look at using a retrieve task. And using the get seems like it could work. I was looking for something more build into the ant tasks so it would seem like less work to people who use ivy. Sometimes people can resist a tool if they see more than one line because it seems like "a lot of work" to them, which is somewhat silly in my opinion. I think I can make up some auxiallary tasks that delegate to the ivy tasks, or write some ant macros that give the appearance of a single line doing thing.
On 12/21/06, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/21/06, Eric Crahen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe this has been answered, but let me explain what I am trying to do. > > I have some Ivy projects that I build while connected to my network and > everything is fine. > Now and again I need to unplug for various reasons and I'd like to still > work. I have stuff > in my cache from previous connected builds but I seem to have two issues > to > overcome. > > --- > > The first is that I use <ivy:configure url="..."/>. I do this because its > impractical to do otherwise. > I have one configuration managed by someone for all my builds. It just > sets > up resolver chains > and what not. > > When I disconnect I fail the configure and can't take advantage of > anything > that has been > cached. > > Do you think it would be possible for ivy to cache configuration files it > downloads, so that > when the network is unreachable it uses the cached version? Or better yet, > it always uses > a cached version and just updates the cache in a background thread with > each > build - so > that I won't have to wait for a network timeout on each build? It's possible, but you can simply use the get task from ant and use a <ivy:configure file="..."/>, and you'll be done without any modification in Ivy. --- > > The second is that I sometimes use revision patterns like "1.+'". When I > use > a pattern it seems > the resolvers require a connection to query the server. If I use "1.0" > then > I will just take from the > cache directly. > > Would it be possible for the resolvers to just query the local cache when > the network is down? It's already possible to reuse the result of a last resolve (as documented in the post resolve task page of the doc). You can also use an ivyconf.xmlwhere you use a cache resolver, which will perform a resolve from cache only (this would be easier with a useCacheOnly="true" feature or something like that, I agree). If you use the retrieve task then you can simply bypass Ivy altogether when you are offline, and use your retrieved lib dir as before. Xavier -- > > - Eric > >
-- - Eric
