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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Download of jars with Maven ant tasks
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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
> 
>> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Some time ago, it was noted that the usage of a jar download and 
>>> handling mechanism would greatly help Cocoon, because it makes it 
>>> easy to share jars and to download only the ones needed.
>>>
>>> Ivy was proposed as a possible solution, but I suggested instead to 
>>> use the Maven code, for the sake of not duplicating efforts; 
>>> unfortunately at that time it was not ready and the proposal stalled.
>>>
>>> Finally, Maven has released tasks that enable Ant builds to use the 
>>> artifact handling [1].
>>>
>>> Isn't it time that we actually do it? :-)
>>
>>
>> +1
> 
> 
> +1 as long as its somebody else doing it and as long as we retain the 
> ability to distribute stuff that didn't make it in the maven repos yet.
<quote> All of the tasks can optionally take one or more remote 
repositories to download from and upload to and a local repository to 
store downloaded and installed archives to.</quote>

So in order to be totally safe we could introduce cocoon specific jar 
repository.

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