> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Upload 3rd party jars retaining original names
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:06:11 +0000
>
> If you're using ant, why not also use Ivy? Then you can make use of the maven
> standard named artifacts.
MG>Cody...how would implementing Ivy namespaces contribute to this effort?
MG>are you envisioning ANT -> IVY -> makepom -> Maven ?
MG>http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/makepom.html
MG>thanks,
>
> Cody Fyler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Evans [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 7:58 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Upload 3rd party jars retaining original names
>
> Thanks all. It seems that what I want to do doesn't fit naturally into the
> Maven way of things.
>
> Using the "copy" plugin I can see how I might possibly unpack elements and
> modify my Eclipse classpath in flight but part of the problem with my
> existing Ant deployment is that I've extended it to do the "possible", not
> necessarily considering the "sensible", so I'll not go down that route. Yet.
>
> It's a shame that I can't store the external jars in the Maven repository and
> treat them ) as "versioned foreign artifacts" because having Maven manage
> them in this way would be brilliant.
>
> Here's what I'm going to try instead:
>
> * I'll carry on with the libraries in my [Perforce] SCM.
>
> * I can map them to a project folder as I do now (similar to sources,
> resources, etc).
>
> * if I understand this part of Maven dependepencies correctly, I can create a
> parent dependendency that depends on an individual system-scope dependency
> for each of the libraries. This will hopefully get them all onto my Maven
> project classpath without too much fuss.
>
> * use "assembly" to include the jars in my final deployment.
>
> Does this seem the natural and sensible way to manage external jars with
> Maven?
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
>
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