Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just found (via TSS) Ivy [1], a BSD-licensed Ant task to download
> dependencies from artifact repositories, including the Maven repo at
> ibiblio.
>
> I've already seen a number of Ant extensions that aim to provide this
> feature, but that one looked particuarily interesting to me as this is
> the first one where dependencies are not describes in the Ant file
> itself.
>
> What that means is that we can create the list of jars to download
> from our jars.xml or the gump descriptor, and have them automatically
> downloaded from the ibiblio repo. Very few modifications on the
> current build are needed.
>
> That could allow to really reduce the size of both our distro and our
> SVN repository.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Sylvain
+1
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