I'm intrigued by your suggestion and eager to take a look, but the webcvs is still down. Could you email me the relevant sections and incl file?
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:37, Jacob Kjome wrote: > The Tomcat build has a nifty way to do this and I mirrored their technique > in the build I did for the open source project called Prevayler... > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/prevayler > > Their webcvs seems down right now, so try a bit later. When it come up, > look at the "Dependency Targets" section in the build.xml and then look at > the utility-targets.incl entity include file which contains the genericized > targets. The sample.build.properties contains locations of each library > you want to download. > > Thought I'd put that out there as an alternative to Maven, although Maven > does seem to be pretty cool from what I've seen. I just think it is > overkill for some things but, then again, I haven't used it much yet so > take my opinion with a grain of salt. > > Jake > > At 01:51 PM 8/29/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >You might want to take a look at Maven, http://maven.apache.org/ > > > >Maven builds on top of Ant and one of its features is it handles that > >gathering of 3rd party libraries automaticly for you. > > > >Charlie Cano wrote: > > > >>I would like to use Ant to automate the "gathering" of 3rd party > >>libraries (jars, etc) from a remote ftp server, but I'm not sure what > >>the "right" way of doing it would be. > >> > > > >>Thanks in advance, > >>Charlie > >> > >> > >> > >You're welcome. > > > >-- > >Erik Husby > >Team Lead for Software Quality Automation > >Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research > >Rm. 2192 > >320 Charles St > >Cambridge, MA 02141-2023 > >mobile: 781.354.6669 > >office: 617.258.9227 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
