I'm sure that it isn't a policy. It's a good practice avoiding Subversion bloat. There are certainly Apache projects who still have a trunk-load of checked-in jars.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please point me at a URL where it says this is Apache policy. I know > of several Apache projects which work the same way ManifoldCF does. > svn is perfectly capable of storing binary images of all kinds. > > Karl > > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:53 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've just noticed that there are lots of jars stored in SVN under >> >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/branches/release-0.1-branch >> >> AIUI, SVN should not be used for storing library jars. >> >> == >> >> The way other projects manage this is to define the jar dependencies >> in a build file, and get the build process to download the jars. >> >> If using Maven, this is trivial, as declared dependencies are >> automatically downloaded. >> >> It's not that difficult when using Ant either - see for example the >> Tomcat or JMeter projects. >> >> There is also an Ant Maven task: >> http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/examples/dependencies.html >> >> and Apache Ivy >> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ >> >> though I've not used either of those. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
