On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:12:21 +0100, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Russell Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A bit earlier in the thread, I tried to summarize them: > > I've seen that, but then Steve responded with a list of things you > didn't know about yet. > > Let me take a few steps back and first look at the functionality only. > We have: > > * a local directory holding libraries. (both) > > * remote site that may hold libraries not yet installed on our system > and a mechanism to get the files from the remote site to our system. > (both) > > * information about a specific layout of directories and files both > locally and remotely - that's what I understand the term repository > to mean in this context. (both, but optional with getlibraries and > central part of the logic in dependencies).
As I understand it, the local directory for getlibraries is typically a flat directory, similar to what a single project would use. On the other hand, the layout of the local directories is very specifically defined by the dependencies task. > > * can create filesets or path from the libaries in the local file > system. (both, but optional with getlibraries and central part of > the logic in dependencies). As I understand it, getlibraries does not support creating filesets, since a central part of its logic is populating a project-specific directory. > * dependencies relies on a single local cache, getlibraries expects > all builds that want to share the cache to collaborate. > > * dependencies relies on filenames, getlibraries uses timestamps in > addition (or maybe other mechanisms) to determine whether something > already is in the local cache. > > Am I missing a crucial piece of functionality for either of both? Am > I misrepresenting anything? Both permit the conditional exclusion of files from their definitions, and both provide a mechanism for customizing the interface to the remote repositories. I think that those are the main ideas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
