On 4/18/07, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I will unfortunately not be present in Amsterdam (my boss said >> that he has >> not enough budgets... Grrr... He merit that I give the name >> of my employer >> ;-) ). However, there is one topics that I think would be interesting: >> >> It would be nice if ant could be able to download an entire >> antlib with its >> dependencies, using ivy of curse ;-). And that, without >> having to install >> anything else than the basic ant installation. > > > Yes, that sounds interesting. > But you have to keep an eye on licenses ... Ant's fetch.xml could > download the optional libraries ... which, for ant1.7.0 does a <get> of the m2 tasks...for ant1.7.1 we could move to ivy and/or bundle ivy out the box.
That sounds like a good idea :-)
> > So just dreaming more ... > > <project xmlns:antunit="ivy:http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/antunit/";> > <antunit:assertTrue/> > </project> > > - the new "ivy:" protokol (compared to "antlib:") loads the AutoLoad > configuration > from the given URL+"autoload.xml" > * http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/antunit/autoload.xml > <autoload ivyconfig="ivy-config.xml" > antlib="org.apache.ant.antunit"/> > - then it "installs" all the required jars specified in the specified > Ivy > configuration file into ~/.ant/antlibs (thats the repository Ivy uses > here) > - it loads the antlib.xml as defined > > or, we take the antlib url antlib://org.example.something.tasks: and search in the repo for a mapping file org/example/something/tasks/mapping.xml that can redir to the artifact that contains the project (here org/example/something/something.jar)
The advantage I see with Jan suggestion is that anybody can provide a repository for its antlib. OTOH using a central repository has some advantages too (we see how maven 2 succeeds in this area). Anyway, I agree this would be a very nice improvement to Ant to support this kind of integration with Ivy for easy antlib installation. For the moment I already use Ivy to initialize the classpath of the antlibs I use, but it's far less straightforward. Xavier -- Learn Ivy at ApacheCon: http://www.eu.apachecon.com/ Manage your dependencies with Ivy! http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
