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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:33:01 +0200
From: "Xavier Hanin" <xavier.hanin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: change default value for alwaysCheckExactRevision
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Gilles Scokart <gscokart@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that the default is true, it means that if someone specify a
> version latest.integration, ivy will first look if the ivy file can be
> found using the 'latest.integration' token.
> If it is false, ivy will directly list the revisions, and according to
> the latest strategy find the latest one.
>
> The performance impact on file system resolver is minor (just one
> file.exist per latest.integration dependency).  But might be bigger
> with http (or other) remote repository.
>
> The effect of changing the default value will be that the people that
> use repositories containing an explicit text 'latest.integration' in
> their pattern will have to adpat their settings.
>
> I'm not sure how many people use this kind of repository.  And I'm not
> even sure if ivy has support to publish to this kind of repository. We
> should maybe poll the ivy user community (I'm not sure it would give
> any result, but we can try).

I don't know if polling the community is worth it. I'm not talking about
discarding this feature, but only changing the default. I may be wrong, but
I suspect that less than 1% of Ivy users actually use this feature (it may
even be 0). Even if it's 10%, I still think the default should be false. But
if you really think we should poll the community first, I'm ok, I just don't
want to loose too much time for a minor change like this.

Xavier


>
>
> Gilles
>
>
> 2008/8/26 Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've already suggested this a couple of times, I'd like to change the
> > default value of alwaysCheckExactRevision from true to false. IMO this is
> > almost never actually used, slightly degrades performance and sometimes
> lead
> > to annoying bugs like invalid URLs (which should be fixed now). So,
> anyone
> > against the idea of changing this default value?
> >
> > Xavier
> >
> > --
> > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
> > http://xhab.blogspot.com/
> > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
> > http://www.xoocode.org/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gilles Scokart
>
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