I also took a brief look at Ivy last week. It looks like a very neat and powerful tool. I played with it and got it to build the HiveMind project after a while.
I am not quite so worried about it complicating the initial build for new developers. It's not any different from what it would be to use the Maven2 Ant tasks you mention. It's just a matter of downloading a JAR and copying it to the Ant lib directory. IMHO we should either stay with what we have or start using Ivy which I think is more mature than Maven2 is. --knut On 5/13/05, Hensley, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard, > > I looked at this, and I don't know if Hivemind really want's to go there. In > order to use Ivy, you need the ivy.jar file available to Ant. As I > understand it, distrubting non-apache jar's with Hivemind is not allowed, I > think depending on Ivy would complicate the initial build for new > developers. At this time, I would not suggest using it. > > However, as an alternative, I would suggest that when Maven2 matures, that > we investigate using the Ant dependency manager tasks being produced by the > Maven2 team. They appear to have the functionality needed, and they are > apache software so they could be distributed with Hivemind. No doubt they > will eventually make it into Ant. > > The documentation is available here > http://maven.apache.org/maven2/ant-tasks.html > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Lewis Ship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Use Ivy to download from Maven? > > Does anyone have some free cycles to look into using Ivy to handle > dependency download management? > > http://ivy.jayasoft.org/ > > It looks like a much better solution than the quicky Grabber Ant task, > even if it means having some kind of external files defining the > dependencies (not necessarily a bad thing, since a dependencies > report, ala Maven, could be generated). > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
