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From: "Jim Newsham" <jnewsham@referentia.com>
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Subject: RE: how to import artifacts
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:29:46 -1000
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So I have to write a script just to import an artifact into a repository?
I'm still surprised by that.  I would expect to be able to invoke a
command-line tool to do a simple import.  I tried to figure out how to do
that with "java -jar ivy.jar" (using the online documentation, which is
particularly weak for this usage), but couldn't get anything working.

I was a bit overwhelmed with the tutorials, and somewhat confused by how all
of the ivy ant tasks work together.  A document that describes this in
detail would be very helpful.  For example, I tried the publish task, but it
complained that I needed to resolve something first.  I read the
documentation on the publish and resolve tasks, but was still left a bit
confused.  

I eventually got something working, so this is more or less feedback from a
neophyte on where the tutorials and documentation fall short.  I think the
current tuturials are great, just couldn't find what I wanted to do.  Thanks
also to those who provided scripts.  The fact that people have to write such
complex scripts to do seemingly core tasks also indicates an area where the
tool is lacking.

Best Regards,
Jim Newsham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Rekk [mailto:konstantin.rekk@gbv.de]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:05 AM
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Re: how to import artifacts
> 
> Not sure, if I've got your point.
> But it seems to me that you are asking about the publish task:
> 
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/publish.html
> 
> Studying this tutorial (the ant build files, look for publish and
> publish local targets) might help you:
> 
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/tutorial/multiple.html
> 
> Konstantin
> 
> >
> >
> > This seems to me a fundamental requirement to set up a repository, so
> I'm
> > rather surprised that it's not documented in some obvious place, and
> there's
> > no tutorial that explains it.  I saw a tutorial that shows how to copy
> > artifacts from one repository to another, but that's worthless if what
> you
> > have doesn't live in any repository yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>