IIRC the ant script should download the ivy jars if it is not installed. The reason why we ship the dep is for publishing the artefacts and override any existing version to make sure we use the right one. Bit of a detail IMHO
Julien On 16 November 2012 02:49, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Can we drop shipping with ivy jar? Is there a programmatic method for > achieving ivy responsibilities through the deps available? > > Best > > Lewis > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Maarten Coene <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:40 PM > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.3.0-RC2 released > To: [email protected] > > > The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.3.0-RC2 release. > > Apache Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and > reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, > configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant. > > Key features of this 2.3.0-RC2 release are > * improved Maven support > * numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes > > As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this > version for > testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final > 2.3.0 version, > only bug fixes will be applied before 2.3.0. If no outstanding bugs are > reported > with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.3.0 about three > weeks after this > release candidate. > > Issues should be reported to: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY > > Download the 2.3.0-RC2 release at: > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi > > More information can be found on the Ivy website: > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ > > Regards, > Maarten Coene > > > -- > Lewis > -- * *Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com http://twitter.com/digitalpebble
