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[jira] Created: (IVY-730) Improve documentation for building Ivy
Improve documentation for building Ivy
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Key: IVY-730
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-730
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation
Reporter: Adrian Sandor
The source distribution currently doesn't contain easily accessible instructions for building the library or doing various tasks such as obtaining dependencies or integrating with Eclipse. Specifically:
- There is a README file, but it only points to install.html, which contains instructions for installing the *binary* distribution
- The current download page has a few instructions for building from source (followed by a broken link to http://ant.apache.org/ivy/downloads/latest/ ), but they are easily overlooked because people (well, at least I) go there to download stuff, and don't normally scroll down to see what else it says. Also, the download page is not included in the source distribution.
- There is a dev.html page, included both on the site and in the source distribution, but it is not directly referenced. Users must currently find it on their own or be told about it. Also, that page doesn't mention the jar target for just building the library (but that also gets done when running the default target, so it's not too bad).
- Apparently a common problem is having another version of Ivy being loaded by ant when running the build script. This is not detected, and causes errors such as:
ivy:settings doesn't support the "override" attribute
The documentation should advise the users to avoid this situation, and if possible, the build script should detect when it happens.
Also see http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Possible-Ivy-resolver-bug-td15302716.html#a15370117
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[jira] Updated: (IVY-730) Improve documentation for building Ivy
Posted by "Xavier Hanin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-730?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Xavier Hanin updated IVY-730:
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Fix Version/s: 2.0
> Improve documentation for building Ivy
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>
> Key: IVY-730
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-730
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Adrian Sandor
> Fix For: 2.0
>
>
> The source distribution currently doesn't contain easily accessible instructions for building the library or doing various tasks such as obtaining dependencies or integrating with Eclipse. Specifically:
> - There is a README file, but it only points to install.html, which contains instructions for installing the *binary* distribution
> - The current download page has a few instructions for building from source (followed by a broken link to http://ant.apache.org/ivy/downloads/latest/ ), but they are easily overlooked because people (well, at least I) go there to download stuff, and don't normally scroll down to see what else it says. Also, the download page is not included in the source distribution.
> - There is a dev.html page, included both on the site and in the source distribution, but it is not directly referenced. Users must currently find it on their own or be told about it. Also, that page doesn't mention the jar target for just building the library (but that also gets done when running the default target, so it's not too bad).
> - Apparently a common problem is having another version of Ivy being loaded by ant when running the build script. This is not detected, and causes errors such as:
> ivy:settings doesn't support the "override" attribute
> The documentation should advise the users to avoid this situation, and if possible, the build script should detect when it happens.
> Also see http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Possible-Ivy-resolver-bug-td15302716.html#a15370117
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[jira] Updated: (IVY-730) Improve documentation for building Ivy
Posted by "Xavier Hanin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-730?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Xavier Hanin updated IVY-730:
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Priority: Minor (was: Major)
Fix Version/s: (was: 2.0)
Postpone since we lack of time to release 2.0, and this is not the highest priority.
> Improve documentation for building Ivy
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: IVY-730
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-730
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Adrian Sandor
> Priority: Minor
>
> The source distribution currently doesn't contain easily accessible instructions for building the library or doing various tasks such as obtaining dependencies or integrating with Eclipse. Specifically:
> - There is a README file, but it only points to install.html, which contains instructions for installing the *binary* distribution
> - The current download page has a few instructions for building from source (followed by a broken link to http://ant.apache.org/ivy/downloads/latest/ ), but they are easily overlooked because people (well, at least I) go there to download stuff, and don't normally scroll down to see what else it says. Also, the download page is not included in the source distribution.
> - There is a dev.html page, included both on the site and in the source distribution, but it is not directly referenced. Users must currently find it on their own or be told about it. Also, that page doesn't mention the jar target for just building the library (but that also gets done when running the default target, so it's not too bad).
> - Apparently a common problem is having another version of Ivy being loaded by ant when running the build script. This is not detected, and causes errors such as:
> ivy:settings doesn't support the "override" attribute
> The documentation should advise the users to avoid this situation, and if possible, the build script should detect when it happens.
> Also see http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Possible-Ivy-resolver-bug-td15302716.html#a15370117
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