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From: "Gilles Scokart" <gscokart@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: Writing some code after ApacheConEU - Retrieving SNAPSHOT
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 16:00:16 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Arentz [mailto:stefan.arentz@gmail.com]
> Sent: jeudi 3 mai 2007 15:39
> To: ivy-user@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Writing some code after ApacheConEU - Retrieving SNAPSHOT
> Artifacts
> 
> On 5/3/07, Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To distinct things:
> > * Ivy do not use maven-metadata.xml files now, and this causes some
> > problem, with maven proxy for instance, and maybe also perf, there's
> > an issue planned for 2.0 about the proxy thing at least. But Ivy
> > supports listing revisions without any specific metadata, so this is
> > not really the main problem unless you are using a maven proxy
> 
> Nope, no proxy. What do you mean with 'listing revisions'?
> 

When you don't specify a specific revision, ivy must 'list' all available
revision before selecting the right one.  That's what it means.  Ivy can do
this by scanning directories in the repository.


> > * we haven't implemented SNAPSHOT yet, but it should be fairly easy to
> > get simple case working. Indeed the equivalent in Ivy of SNAPSHOT is a
> > + (1.3-SNAPSHOT would be written 1.3-+ in Ivy) Supporting them like
> > that is as easy as adding a new VersionMatcher, on the basis of
> > SubVersionMatcher. Maybe you could add an issue about that to be sure
> > we don't forget to deal with that (there maybe already one, I don't
> > remember).
> 
> I'll add that issue. But that is just cosmetics right? If I understand
> correctly, the real problem is the maven-metadata.xml. I'll be happy
> to add that to Ivy 2.0 if you can give me some pointers to where that
> code belongs.
> 

I guess Xavier can give more precise info, but starts by looking at the
VersionMatchers, its subclass and its 'caller'.

Gilles