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CJAN - April 12, 2001
Ideas conceived by many parties
Formalized and coded by:
Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Java is an excellent platform for creating cross-platform code. One small hack
of the Java platform is the CLASSPATH. CJAN intends to ease problems associated
with the classpath as well as binary files in development CVS trees, by allowing
build systems such as Ant to dynamically download/cache/include various
dependencies. No longer will the typical open-source developers setup include
37 copies of ant.jar, 5 different xerces.jar, 3 incompatible xalan.jar, and not
a single useful turbine.jar.
The idea is akin to CPAN (http://www.cjan.org) in that various binary packages,
most likely in the form of .jar files, will be made available over the internet,
so that they can be downloaded and cached by a tool such as Ant.
CJAN will consist of one or more optional Ant task(s), as well as many XML-based
repository and module definition files. The intent is that the Ant build for a
particular project will be able to list dependent .jar files, and download any
that are missing. Thus binary files will not need to be checked into CVS and
constantly updated, and the world will be generally happier overall, we hope ;-)
