So my in-laws are in town and a lot of family events are coming in 
between me and writing software. In order to achive balance, for some 
events I'm taking advantage of having a reasonably powerful Laptop (even 
if it does run Win2k....it belongs to my employer who doesn't yet 
support Linux on Laptops) and doing some work on POI.  (is there a point 
to this...yes I'm coming to that)  I enjoyed listening to children's 
poetry while I went through the patches for adding named ranges to POI 
and watched out for Billy trying to run off (don't worry I wasn't the 
only one watching for this).  Well in the process of doing this I made a 
rather eggregious error, I forgot to get a copy of Centipede. 
 Fortunately, I had an old copy of POI and was able to copy the 
build.xml and tools directory, remove the scratchpad and examples and 
use the old build with the new POI.  Well that went reasonably well but 
I got to thinking...this was a rather easy mistake to make and it sure 
doesn't appear to be documented anywhere that I can't do this.  So I 
think we need to think through this again.  

I realize what you're trying to do Ken and I think its very cool, but 
there are practical concerns at work here as well.  I propose we:

1. add the dependancies from centepede last known good back into CVS
2. I will (if Ken is unwilling) make sure it is kept reasonably up to date
3. document the process of deleting and automatically downloading newer 
versions of centipede.
4. your thoughts here.

-Andy

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