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Taher Alkhateeb commented on OFBIZ-7783:
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Hi Jacques,
I suggest to revert it anyway because it needs to be discussed in some detail.
We communicated in the past and I made clear objections on adding it. You
replied back saying you need it for OWASP where I replied back with a
suggestion to use the gradle plugin instead OFBIZ-7930
As for the complexity part, and as I mentioned in other discussions (shortcut
tasks, etc ...) this adds problems and complexity in multiple ways:
- First, it is inefficient and utilizes disk space needlessly.
- If we change anything in the gradle projects structure (move some
dependencies down to sub-projects in the future for example, which might be
needed for the plugin API not sure) then the task crashes and needs to be
updated. So this adds to the brittleness because now you can't chop the system
into sub projects without complex logic to combine all the dependencies.
- It adds another task, which might seem innocent, but then our build.xml was
extremely complex and ant -p did not help a lot because there were so many
tasks that it hurts more than helps. This is a classic example of "scope
creep". Keep adding unnecessary and minor things which bloats your code base.
- Even the way it was written has problems, it does not, for example, belong to
the ofbizServer group, instead it more properly belongs to sysadminGroup, which
makes it confusing
- Also, about your point above where some servers do not have internet access,
why would you then copy the runtime libs and not everything? Copying runtime
only means you only need a deployment and not building or QA work.
- Creating a LAN repository does not get implemented like that! instead you
change the repository definition, it's in a completely different place
Those are some of the reasons why I suggest to revert and come up with a proper
solution if needed.
> External library files are not in the OFBiz folder structure.
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> Key: OFBIZ-7783
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7783
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Pierre Smits
> Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Upcoming Branch
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> With the implementation of the external library download feature of
> gradle/gradlew, the external libraries (jar files) are not in the folder
> structure any more.
> They should reside there, like before.
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