what about writing a custom ant task that gets the jars from ibiblio or wherever they are from?
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:51:24 -0800 (PST), David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't have a problem with tossing the Maven stuff. However, I > > believe we do have some Maven mavens in our midst who likely feel > > otherwise. This might sound odd, but perhaps, if we do have people who > > are interested in actively pursuing Maven, we should move the Maven > > stuff to contrib until such time as it provides a working replacement > > for our Ant build system? > > IMO, maintaining two build systems is only going to make things worse so > we should probably stick with Ant. The key thing about Maven is that it > downloads jars for me so I don't have to waste my time doing it manually. > Of course, we don't need that feature if we just store the jars in svn > like any sane project would ;-). We can't store some of the non-free jars > in svn but at least those would be the exception and downloading one or > two jars is better than 10 (or whatever we're up to now). > > The projects I work on in Commons and my work projects are all buildable > immediately after downloading them from cvs. Some of them acheive that by > using Maven, some by just storing the dependencies in cvs. I think that > should be Struts' goal as well. > > David > > > > > > > -- > > Martin Cooper > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
