Oh.  Thanks for the response.  My curiosity is satisfied.

On 9/26/07, Lin Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think this is because we changed to use maven-antrun-plugin instead of
> the maven-dependency-plugin.   I guess one advantage is that with the
> antrun plugin we can grab eclipse zip files directly from an Eclipse
> repo which isn't maven 2 format yet.   It used to be that Sachin has to
> host the eclipse zip files on his personal apache page.
>
> Lin
>
> Jason Warner wrote:
> > I pulled down the j2g trunk last night in an attempt to look at the
> > issues raised by Ted Kirby about compile failures.  When I built this, I
> > found that the status information provided when downloading Eclipse and
> > other prerequisites had changed.  It used to display the total file
> > size, plus how much had already been downloaded.  I think it might have
> > also showed the transfer speed but I'm not sure.  Either way, now the
> > status is conveyed by means of dots.  I didn't find this especially
> > helpful, especially when it started downloaded the eclipse sdk and my
> > entire terminal history became full of dots.  Was this an explcit change
> > by someone or is it a result of being moved out of sandbox into
> > devtools?  Could it be changed back?  I found the old information more
> > useful.  Anyone else have any thoughts on the issue?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason Warner
>
>

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