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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:07:39 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Download of jars with Maven ant tasks
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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? :-)


Yeah, cool! Even cooler now that the Ivy folks have decided to build 
their own repository.

+1!

Sylvain

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Sylvain Wallez                        Anyware Technologies
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Apache Software Foundation Member     Research & Technology Director