On Sunday, August 22, 2010, Nikos Maris <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does buildr provide dependency management when there is already > Ivy? Does it make sense to make the transitive method use ivy4r in an > upcoming buildr release? Having a fork of Ivy that is less > configurable but simpler, is something that I wished when I started > these days to learn Ivy.
What buildr does today is the minimum/easiest that could accomodate people without reinventing Ivy. Yes, the plan is to reuse Ivy (or a subset) to complete transitive dependency support. It will likely be an opinionated approach, with many choices taken out of what's possible to do with Ivy, aligning ourselves with Maven in terms of compatibility, and favoring determinism. For people who want full Ivy support, Buildr would defer to the Ivy4r plugin. The timeframe for this seems to be Buildr 1.5 -- hopefully before the end of 2010 but no guarantees. alex
