Re: svn commit: r1377482 - /incubator/ooo/trunk/main/external_deps.lst

[Pedro Giffuni]

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>> 
>>  Please take the time to study the Maven project before you attempt to 
> reinvent it. [1]
>> 
> 
> I think one could fairly look at the relative creation dates and see
> that Maven reinvented OpenOffice's dependency tracking system ;-)
> 

Both are reinvention of FreeBSD's ports tree (where checksums have
been working very reliably for both security and consistency). The
question is which is more reliable and flexible.

If we use maven will that involve an extra dependency on Java?

Cheers,

Pedro.