Is there any partial Ivy support in the svn? Ivy4r seems to be a dead project.
---------------------------------- Nikos Maris Software Engineer IMC Technologies SA www.imc.com.gr On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Alex Boisvert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
