Re: distribution of ivy with ant

> That is definitely a cool idea.  Another possibility would be to use  
> embedded Ivy to implement an auto-update feature for ant and/or ivy  
> itself.
> Not a "three-dialogs-per-day" kind of auto-update feature, of course.
>
> jason
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Martin Eigenbrodt [mailto:martineigenbrodt@...]
> Sent: Wed 5/27/2009 2:02 AM
> To: Ant Developers List
> Subject: Re: distribution of ivy with ant
>
>
>
> I think this is a great Idea and could bring the power of ivy to the  
> core of
> ant. You could then even change taskdef (or write  a similair task) to
> support somethingh like:
>
> <taskdef org="cobertura" module="cobertura" revision="1.9.1"
> resource="tasks.properties"/>
>
> No need to manually download the files and setup a path before. This  
> would
> make using ant extensions/ thirdparty tasks easier.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> 2009/5/27 Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@...>
>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Steve Loughran <stevel@...>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Enis Soztutar wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if it is discussed previously but I was wondering  
>>>> why ivy
>> is
>>>> not included in the ant distribution. More and more projects  
>>>> previously
>>>> depending on ant start to use ivy, but the build files are  
>>>> cluttered
>> with
>>>> ivy-download, check-ivy-antlib, etc. Technically ivy is a  
>>>> subproject of
>> ant,
>>>> and it can be used optionally. However if they are distributed  
>>>> together
>>>> there will be several benefits:
>>>> 1. Out-of-the-box support for dependency management for ant
>>>> 2. Better integration of ivy with ant
>>>> 3. No more check, download and load ivy targets in build files
>>>> 4. Lowered entry barrier to using ivy  for existing ant users
>>>> 5. Exposure of ivy to more users
>>>>
>>>> the only drawback I can think of is the extra ivy jar file in the
>>>> distribution.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any plans on the roadmap?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Now that ivy is part of Ant, it makes sense to start thinking of  
>>> bundling
>>> the two. However, it may tie the release cycle of the faster  
>>> moving item
>>> (ivy) to that of the slower one.
>>
>> Ivy may still be released separately too, so that people wanting to  
>> upgrade
>> their Ivy version without waiting for a release of Ant could still  
>> do it.
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Xavier
>>
>>
>>> Do you think things have stabilised/slowed down enough for this?  
>>> We can
>> of
>>> course increase the release frequency of Ant...
>>>
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