Howdy Ben!
Ivy can be used to get any kind of file. As Jan says, you can create a
resolver (or perhaps configure an existing one) to work with those LISP
repositories. To see an even simpler scheme, you can check out IFCX
Wings in which I use Ivy to just fetch & cache given a URL (I use a
santizied version of the URL as the module name) because I've been too
lazy to arrange for my stuff to go into a public repo. Wings even
includes some LISP (after a fashion; I use Ivy to download the language
implementations).
http://www.ifcx.org/
Jim
Benjamin Bittner wrote:
Hello everybody!
(I'm sorry if this message appears twice on the mailing list, I tried
to send it before
but apparently doesn't show up on the list.)
I'm currently working on a project that involves both Java and Lisp code.
The build system we use is Ant.
Currently, the project depends on three libraries: asm-all, junit,
commons-io.
The project itself is pretty monolithic and doesn't have internal module
dependencies (beside source files that have to be compiled in a precise
order).
I am researching whether we should use a dependency manager.
Ivy, integrating very well with Ant, seems an obvious choice. But it
really seems
that ibiblio and the maven2 repositories only provide Java libraries.
It would
be interesting for my project to resolve Lisp dependencies.
Can you confirm that Ivy can only handle Java dependencies? Would it be
too
much work to personalize Ivy to work with Lisp repositories such as the
following?
http://common-lisp.net/viewrep.shtml
http://www.cl-user.net/asp/root-dir
Thank you so much for your help!
Ben
