Quoting Mark Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yep. I have now been exposed to that as a way to do the same bit that Maven > does (the sample code I was looking at had a Maven and an Ant script so you > could pick and choose). I do plan to add it. Now if only the sun jars could > be accessed that way too...or is there a way to access the sun jars this way > as well? >
Yeah, that's always a problem. That's the one case where you'll have to point locally. No way I know of to get around that other than store them in source control, but that's probably not possible for an open source project given licensing issues. Jake > thanks! > -Mark > > On 10/13/05, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quoting Mark Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I guess I should just use Maven to keep up jar repository up-to-date > > > locally. :-) > > > > > > > The Tomcat build that Yoav refers to does auto-downloading of > > dependencies. Why > > can't Log4j's build? Just use the <get> task, just like the Tomcat build. > > > > Jake > > > > > -Mark > > > > > > On 10/12/05, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > -0.5 on using Maven. My experience with it has been that it's kind of > > nice > > > > for > > > > generating project documentation, but for most real-life (i.e. complex > > > > dependencies, multiple builders on different environments) projects, > > the > > > > setup > > > > overhead is not worth the benefits. > > > > > > > > It is also not as widely used as Ant, and I don't want to raise the > > bar > > > > for our > > > > users who build log4j themselves without a significant benefit. > > > > > > > > We should instead keep build.properties.default more suitable for you > > so > > > > you > > > > have very little (if any) manual build.properties updating to do each > > > > time. If > > > > we have managed to do it for Tomcat and other more complicated > > products > > > > (as we > > > > have), we can do it for log4j. > > > > > > > > Yoav > > > > > > > > --- Mark Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any experience with using Maven for the build > > > > environment > > > > > with/instead of Ant? I am really tired of having to keep the > > > > > build.properties up to date on my machine and update everytime I do > > a > > > > new > > > > > checkout. I saw where Maven can be used to grab the desired version > > from > > > > > ibiblio, etc, but I don't know how the rest of our build would > > > > translate. I > > > > > need to do more homework. > > > > > > > > > > If anyone has experience or opinions, I would like to hear back. > > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > -Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
