Thank you!  Finding the latest greatest jars has always been a pain in 
my butt!

Take Care
Jason Kary


Jason van Zyl wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In an attempt to try and keep JARs out of CVS and to make building easier I
>went ahead and modified the Ant <get> task to deal with a text file that
>lists a set of dependencices. It will allow you to start with nothing, or
>update JARs that have changed in the master repository.
>
>I have tested this, and I just added proxy support for Dan (who happened to
>be in IRC when I finished) so people using proxies should be able to get the
>JARs as well. I wanted to keep the retrieval method HTTP so people behind
>firewalls could get access too.
>
>This is raw but it appears to be working. I am using the Gump/Alexandria
>descriptors as the basis of the information, processing the descriptors with
>Maven and I had to add some things by hand. Hopefully this will get the ball
>rolling and we can make things even easier and cleaner.
>
>Things are setup now so that people who are building will not be affected
>and the gump build won't be affected. There is simply an 'update-jars'
>target that needs to be invoked manually. We can make this more automatic in
>the coming days but I wanted to try it out in stratum and clean it up before
>moving on to the other turbine projects and then propose it on a wider scale
>for other projects.
>
>I hope this starts to alleviate some of the hassles in building the turbine
>projects. Thanks for your patience and in the next couple of days we'll get
>this process working for all the turbine projects so we can start moving
>forward again.
>
>




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