Hi Paul, Indeed, we need to work on our documentation and especially on tutorials. You're right about the repositories, Ivy used to use ivyrep as default repository, but it isn't maintained any more, and now Ivy uses maven 2 repo out of the box, which has a different namespace
For the removal of tutorials and adding them back when they are fixed, this is an interesting idea which would put a high priority on fixing them. What do others think about that? Xavier On 6/1/07, Paul Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all... I'm new here but I like what I see so far. I'm following the directions in your documentation but it seems somewhat outdated. For example: The first quick start tutorial ( http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/doc/tutorial/start.html) references http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ but under that directory, there is no apache/commons-lang directory: [ivy:retrieve] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/apache/commons-lang/2.1/commons- lang-2.1.jar [ivy:retrieve] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [ivy:retrieve] :: UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES :: [ivy:retrieve] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [ivy:retrieve] :: [ apache | commons-lang | 2.1 ]: not found [ivy:retrieve] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [ivy:retrieve] [ivy:retrieve] [ivy:retrieve] :: USE VERBOSE OR DEBUG MESSAGE LEVEL FOR MORE DETAILS It is actually here: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-lang/commons-lang/ (which I think looks wrong) Secondly I was looking at the build-repository tutorial ( http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/doc/tutorial/build-repository.html?action=print ) and that works but you can see in the repo that the http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/hibernate/jars/ dir only goes up so far in versions before it stops. The newer versions of hibernate are in http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/org.hibernate/jars/ I think this means it works for now, but I can't get the latest version. So... it seems that your tutorials/documentation are a bit out of date. I would also suggest writing your documentation assuming that people have little to no knowledge of maven2. If you want to talk about maven2 repos because ivy depends on them, then some back history on how the repos have grown over time, why there seem to be two places where the artifacts are in them, and the relationship between ivy and maven2. Perhaps deleting all of the documentation/example projects and adding them back once they have been vetted for accuracy would be a good idea. It would be nice to ensure that new users/developers (like me) are learning the state-of-the-art ideas. Less is more! Thanks in advance! -Paul
-- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant Manage your dependencies with Ivy! http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
