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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:51:49 +0100
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Importing libraries from ibiblio
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Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> ...
>
>> 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.
>
>
> +1 to use a jar repository
>
> +1 to use a Maven repository, so that users can reuse their local
>    Maven-downloaded jars reducing bandwidth usage and download times
>
> +1 to using Maven Wagon to download the artifacts


Didn't knew about this. Interesting, but is it visible somewhere else 
than in the CVS [1]? I couldn't find it on the maven site. Also, is 
there an Ant task using Wagon?

> -1 to using any download mechanism different from Maven Wagon or
>    pure http get


Well, then anything is compliant, as it always go down to a pure http 
get ;-)
(just joking)

> If we want to use the Maven repository system, it's better to stick 
> with the Maven implementation, that is supported. ATM it doesn't have 
> an Ant task anymore, but over at repository@apache.org I have 
> understood that they agreed to add it back.


I'm all for a Maven-supported solution, but do we want to wait until Ant 
and Maven agree on something common when we have today a lightweight 
tool that can do the job?

Sylvain

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