Will it use a maven repository? This sounds like a lot of the
functionality in Maven. Whether you like Maven or not, the fact that
there are large repositories of jars is great, so I hope your friend
will take advantage of that.
David Tanzer wrote:
A friend of mine is currently developing a program to manage Java
project resources (jars and others) called "gc resource repository"
(gc-rr):
http://dev.guglhupf.net/commons/rr/index.html
Some of the features are:
* Central resource repository to share resources between multiple
projects.
* Needed resource are downloaded and stored in a local repository.
* Dependencies between resources are solved.
* Setup the classpath with all needed resources (jars).
* Start java progams with the needed resources.
* Ant integration to setup the classpath.
* Modular ant build script support
* Eclipse classpath builder to setup the classpath in eclipse.
You may want to take a look at it. It is distributed under the Apache
License, and I guess I could convince Rene Pirringer (the main developer
of gc-rr) to contribute it to Apache Harmony if this is desired.
Best Regards,
David Tanzer
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:01 +0000, George Harley wrote:
Hi Alexey,
The "usetimestamp" attribute of Ant's "get" task kind of offers this
functionality. Setting the attribute value to "true" means that the
download only proceeds if the local copy of the resource is missing or
stale.
There is more information on this at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/get.html
Best regards,
George
IBM UK
Alexey Petrenko wrote:
Well, it would be nice. However I don't like build scripts that depend on
network.
Yes, there should be the possibility to download needed jars once and
forget about network.
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Alexey A. Petrenko
Intel Middleware Products Division
