The <description> tag allows for any arbitrary XML tags within it. I assume this is to let you type up HTML descriptions. We use this to include custom license tags for attribution and such. _________________________________________________________ Eric Anderson Palantir Technologies | Engineering Team Lead [email protected] | 520.440.3773 _________________________________________________________
On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:53 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > See also > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-893 > > Jan > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Archie Cobbs [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Januar 2010 21:47 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: info.license >> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Michael Shea <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've seen this: >>> >> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/lic > ense.html >>> >>> I'm now wondering how best to use it. Presumably, I should >> modify the >>> ivy.xml for all the modules that have licenses, and add in >> the <license> tag >>> as a first step =). Is there anything built in to Ivy to >> retrieve the data >>> from the specified URLs? Perhaps I need to write something >> to parse the Ivy >>> XML reports and retrieve all the licenses? >>> >>> Alternatively, I have considered possibly doing this using <conf >>> name="license" description="License files"/>, and >> associating the license >>> files for each project with that configuration. That seems >> like it'd be kind >>> of irritating to implement though. >>> >> >> Seems like the simplest thing is the first idea: write a >> script (XSLT?) that >> churns through the ivy report output, then retrieves all the >> license files. >> >> -Archie >> >> -- >> Archie L. Cobbs >>
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