[cc'd to droids list for info since I'm a mentor there too] 2009/6/17 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>: > Ross Gardler wrote: >> 2009/6/17 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>: >>> i made a start on a crawler module yesterday to make it easier to >>> download all releases from an URL. >> >> Why not use Droids? >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/droids/ > > in terms of downloading tech... > > i did consider looking into droids but couldn't find a release and it > required jdk 1.6 so concluded that it's not an immediate option (i > needed something right away)
Fair enough, maybe the Droids people will be prompted into makind a release (JDK1.5 preferably) > in the medium term, i think moving to droids sounds like the right move > > in terms of process, i see crawler as a replacement for the recursive > rat script: download a release tree, check sums and signatures, unpack > releases then run rat on each so it's more than just droids. Sure it is, but an important part of that is the crawler and I don't think we shuold be duplicating effort across two projects. Maybe this mail will encourage the droids team to create a release that we can use as the crawler. Ross -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
