Regular Expressions in Dependency Revisions

[Hugo Pinto <hs...@gmail.com>]

Dear Ivy users,

I am trying to express a general match for a dependency, and I wonder
if there is any simpler way than implementing my own matcher.

I want to exprfess a dependency that ignores a part of the name of the
jar file. For instance, for the dependencies
 mylibrary-1.0.1-BUILD1048
 thirdPartyLibrary-2.8Beta

I want to write something on the vein of "1.0.1*" for the first and
"2.8*" for the second. I saw that if the lat bits was entirely
composed of number, I coudl just use +; as well as doing operations
with ranges.
Perusing the manuals I also saw support for more complex regular
expressions in the configurations, but not in the dependency
resolution bit.
 Does anyone know if there is any straightforward way to express this?
If not, perhaps someone knows of an implementation of a regex
dependency resolver?

Thank you,
-- 
Hugo Pinto
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Computer Games
http://www.hugopinto.net

Re: Regular Expressions in Dependency Revisions

[Xavier Hanin <xa...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Hugo Pinto <hs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Ivy users,
>
> I am trying to express a general match for a dependency, and I wonder
> if there is any simpler way than implementing my own matcher.
>
> I want to exprfess a dependency that ignores a part of the name of the
> jar file. For instance, for the dependencies
>  mylibrary-1.0.1-BUILD1048
>  thirdPartyLibrary-2.8Beta
>
> I want to write something on the vein of "1.0.1*" for the first and
> "2.8*" for the second. I saw that if the lat bits was entirely
> composed of number, I coudl just use +; as well as doing operations
> with ranges.
> Perusing the manuals I also saw support for more complex regular
> expressions in the configurations, but not in the dependency
> resolution bit.
>  Does anyone know if there is any straightforward way to express this?
> If not, perhaps someone knows of an implementation of a regex
> dependency resolver?

If all you need is any revision starting with something, the + notation is
enough: 1.8+ will match any revision starting with 1.8 (starting with
understood as in a string).

If you need something more flexible, there may be a solution with
PatternVersionMatcher, but I need to check what can be done with it before.

Xavier

>
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Hugo Pinto
> Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Computer Games
> http://www.hugopinto.net
>



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