On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:14 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > [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)
We are planing a release soonish I once wrote some 1.4 downward compilation with ant and retrotranslator (see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/droids/trunk/build.xml?view=co). However meanwhile we switched to maven and I have not looked into the integration of retrotranslator in maven. > > > 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. Sure there are only few issues to attend for our first release. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI)
