[jsword-devel] [JIRA] Commented: (JS-140) Use Ivy to manage JSword's dependencies.

[Martin Denham]

There were advantages in having the jars under the jar folder, where they
were before.  There are only a few jars and it means the eclipse project
works instantly after checkout.  Will the jars still be there?

On 6 December 2010 05:33, DM Smith (JIRA) <jira at crosswire.org> wrote:

>
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> http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/JS-140?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13646#action_13646]
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> DM Smith commented on JS-140:
> -----------------------------
>
> I've figured out how
> * to include only the stuff that is wanted. Now it only brings in the jar
> itself and the source jar. It just took adding
> conf="default->master,sources" to the dependency.
> * to specify a different location for the cache. Now at jsword/ivy.
> * to put the jars in a useful place: jsword/lib (this solves the caching
> problem)
> * to blend jars we can't get via ivy, with those from ivy
>
> This introduced a ripple effect and the build files (core.xml and jsword's
> build.xml) needed to change:
> * changed ${target.jar} to point to "lib"
> * uncommented prepare.extra to use it in jsword's build.xml to load
> dependencies.
> * made clean in core.xml clean out the ${target.jar} directory
>
> What's left:
> clean up the jsword-web documentation explaining how to checkout the
> project and use it within Eclipse.
>
> The big gotcha, upon checkout one must run ant in the jsword project.
> Otherwise, Eclipse (and probably other IDE's) will complain. If Eclipse is
> run first, then jsword will have to be refreshed after the run.
>
> FYI, I just noticed that there is an ant task to convert an ivy definition
> to a maven pom.
>
>
>
>
> > Use Ivy to manage JSword's dependencies.
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> >                 Key: JS-140
> >                 URL: http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/JS-140
> >             Project: JSword
> >          Issue Type: Improvement
> >    Affects Versions: 1.6
> >            Reporter: DM Smith
> >            Assignee: DM Smith
> >            Priority: Minor
> >
> > Ivy is an Apache component that is tightly integrated with Ant that will
> grab dependent jars and provide them to the project.
> > This would greatly reduce the SVN repository size going forward as we
> would no longer need to house these libraries.
>
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