On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Elias Ross wrote:
I have finally started to code, and I'm not too keen on downloading or
locating the various 10 or so libraries to build Log4j. I propose
we simply
copy the appropiate .jar files for building into a "thirdparty"
directory and
include all the licenses, etc. This is what many other projects
do, I don't
know if there is some policy against it, but anything to lower the
barrier of
entry is a good thing.
Many of the dependencies have licenses that prohibit distribution.
Yes, I know there is a Maven build. I gave it a go, and even it
doesn't work
without having to manually download a few files.
The files that are missing from the Maven repository are most likely
ones where the license restrictions could not be addressed.
I'd like to both simplify my life a little and maybe a few others.
What do people think?
I would not have any problems a patch that "bootstraps" the Ant build
from resources from the Maven repository. I would prefer to do that
than to pull them from the SVN. However, I do not think that you
could achieve a zero configuration build (at least on earlier JDK's)
due to the restrictions on some of the components.
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