On 5/16/07, Norris Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there any plan to allow IVY to download the source and javadoc for dependencies like Maven does?
It depends on what you mean by 'allow'. Ivy is able to download the artifacts you want, all you have to do is declare them. The problem is with maven 2 pom, we don't have the meta information about if a source and javadoc artifact is present or not, so we assume they are not, otherwise Ivy would complain about a missing artifact. OTOH in latest IvyDE we have automatic download and attachment of javadoc and sources for maven dependencies. It's not too diffiult to ask Ivy to download artifacts you want using the Ivy API. If we want something in the core without being too m2 specific, we would have to introduce something like an optional artifact: an artifact declared in a module descriptor (the memory representation of poms and ivy files once parsed by Ivy) so that Ivy would try to download it, but not complain if it doesn't exist. But it really depend on what you actually need. HTH, Xavier Norris Shelton
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