On 03-May-2007 12:27:52 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know it doesn't seem to be supported right now, but our org was thinking
it would be nice to be able to build a repository using a structure like:
<ivy
pattern="${ivy.repo.dir}/[status]/[organization]/[module]/[revision]/ivy.xml"
/>
<artifact
pattern="${ivy.repo.dir}/[status]/[organization]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact].[type]"
/>
Note the addition of the [status] token. The rationale being that it would
help you separate 'release' and 'integration' builds. (We have a goal of
being able to support promotion of an integration to a release and the
clean distinction would be helpful for starters)
Usually I recommend this form of separation in an hard coded way as
you suggest below. The problem to have it as a token is that Ivy can't
guess the status value from your dependencies definition... unless
maybe if you use it as an extra attribute (never tried before, but it
may work):
<dependency org="..." name="..." status="milestone" rev="latest.integration" />
In this case the pattern you suggest may work (but you need to specify
the status everytime, and Ivy won't look into the release if a
milestone is not available (which is what Ivy does with
latest.milestone, but this requires module descriptors parsing, which
has performance issues, especially with slow repository.
Xavier
I guess given the lack of support for the status token in resolver patterns
a workaround might be to have chained resolvers that use hardcoded base
paths ie-
pattern="${ivy.repo.dir}/release/[organization]/[module]/[revision]...
pattern="${ivy.repo.dir}/integration/[organization]/[module]/[revision]...
And try to filter publish/resolves accordingly...
Has anyone else played around with this type of concept? Anyone have other
novel ways of dealing with releases/integrations specifically?
Todd
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Re: best repository layout?
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On 5/3/07, Bagwell, Allen F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been faced with a similar choice. For testing purposes (ivy is
> experimental at this stage in our build process) I'm using:
>
> organisation/module/revision/type/artifact.ext +
> organisation/module/ivys/ivy-revision.ext
>
> This works well at the moment because all of our modules that are
> publishing right now are in-house developed C++ static libraries and
> their header files. With traditional names like libFoo.a, the revision
> number isn't a part of the library name versus a typical .jar file.
Notice that the name in the repo and the name once retrieved is not
necessarily related, so you can have the revision in the name in the
repo and remove it when you retrieve your dependencies. Since you can
filter on retrieve, you can retrieve with one pattern your header
files and with another one your jar files.
This is just an idea, there's nothing wrong with avoiding the revision
in your artifact names.
Xavier
>
> However, we will soon be adding Java to our project -- using both
> publicly available jars with revision # in the file name as well as our
> own -- so I will likely have to re-think this. I know with .so files
> there is a tradition of naming them 'libFoo.so.[revision]' and have a
> symlink of 'libFoo.so' point to the latest. Maybe we should adopt a
> similar convention with our .a files and something like
> 'headers-libFoo-[revision].zip' for the other stuff.
>
> If anyone has a suggestion, I'm all eyes and ears. :)
>
> Allen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: best repository layout? (opinions solicited)
>
> On 5/2/07, Buck, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not being an advanced user of IVY, I wanted to pass this question by
> > the user community. I wanted to nail down my repository layout ASAP.
> >
> > In your experience, which repository layout works best?
> >
> > Here are a couple options:
> >
> > 1. organisation/product/version-num/jars-here +
> > organisation/product/ivy-product-version.xml
> >
> > 2. organisation/product/version-num/jars/jars-here +
> > organisation/product/version-num/ivys/ivys-here
> >
> > 3. other?
> >
> > There may be considerations that I have not considered, but what I
> > presently have (and can change with ease) is option # 1.
> >
> > Thoughts or debate anyone?
> It really depends on your needs and requirements, but here are some
> general feedback:
> * group data by version, it makes it easier to manage your repository
> (so option #2 seems better here).
> * depending on your needs, try to keep things as simple as possible.
> If you can distinguish your artifacts without the type and if you do not
> have too much artifacts per module, avoid the [type] directory (but if
> you want to store sources and javadocs artifacts, they are usually
> distinguished only by type)
> * use the branch token if you plan to use branches some time.
> * keep the revision in the file name if the repository can be accessed
> directly (on a web server for instance) to make it obvious what the
> revision of the artifact is once downloaded
>
> HTH,
>
> Xavier
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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