I agree.
James, as an end-user product, is not necessarily going to be downloaded by people who 
have any idea about jars. They will expect James to run out-of-the box. 

Therefore we have to bundle all dependance jars with James, therfore why not maintain 
a repository with the correct versions, and if that repository is cvs it too can 
benefit from the same version control.

I know binaries in CVS is officially frowned upon, but I dont care, for us it makes 
sense (of a sort).

An alternative is to produce lite versions of distributions which save on downloads by 
not including common jars.

d.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 02 February 2003 23:01
> To: James-Dev Mailing List
> Subject: Download jars instead of keeping in CVS?
> 
> 
> Is this something we ought to consider using in the future?  I still think
> we want to have some form of turnkey binary release.
> 
>       --- Noel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 17:17
> To: Avalon Developers List
> Subject: Re: [A4] release plan thoughts
> 
> [...]
> 
> > For Ant, there is a RuperTask that is able to download the jars from a
> > repository like the maven ibiblio one and eventually set them on the ant
> > classpath too. If the files are already in the local repository, it
> > doesn't download them.
> 
> > I'd propose we use that now to get our jars instead of putting them in
> CVS.
> 
> --
> Nicola Ken Barozzi                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>              - verba volant, scripta manent -
>     (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
> 
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