Danny,
I don't know what the answer is, frankly. Just raising the issue. Maven
has a similar thing. I'm just not sure how we would use it. If someone
downloads James, we can expect that they want to use it, and they need all
of the components.
One benefit would be keeping the jar files outside of the CVS. Another
benefit would be eliminating redundant jars.
Not something I pushing ... the topic just comes up from time to time, so
I'm point it out.
--- Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:13
To: James Developers List
Subject: RE: Download jars instead of keeping in CVS?
I agree.
James, as an end-user product, is not necessarily going to be downloaded by
people who have any idea about jars. They will expect James to run
out-of-the box.
Therefore we have to bundle all dependance jars with James, therfore why not
maintain a repository with the correct versions, and if that repository is
cvs it too can benefit from the same version control.
I know binaries in CVS is officially frowned upon, but I dont care, for us
it makes sense (of a sort).
An alternative is to produce lite versions of distributions which save on
downloads by not including common jars.
d.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 02 February 2003 23:01
> To: James-Dev Mailing List
> Subject: Download jars instead of keeping in CVS?
>
>
> Is this something we ought to consider using in the future? I still think
> we want to have some form of turnkey binary release.
>
> --- Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 17:17
> To: Avalon Developers List
> Subject: Re: [A4] release plan thoughts
>
> [...]
>
> > For Ant, there is a RuperTask that is able to download the jars from a
> > repository like the maven ibiblio one and eventually set them on the ant
> > classpath too. If the files are already in the local repository, it
> > doesn't download them.
>
> > I'd propose we use that now to get our jars instead of putting them in
> CVS.
>
> --
> Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - verba volant, scripta manent -
> (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
>
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