Getting started with Gump

[Kyle Adams <ka...@gfs.com>]

I'm currently revamping our company's build process to utilize Ant scripts generated from XML project definitions via XSLT.  I've heard Gump mentioned several times on the ant-user list, and I've seen the HTML pages produced by Gump on the Jakarta build.  I'm very impressed, and I think Gump would solve some problems (inter-project dependencies for one) I'm currently struggling with.  When I started looking around the Alexandria site for downloadables, I couldn't find any.  It seems that the only way of obtaining Alexandria (and more specifically Gump) is via CVS.  This presents a problem as the ports used by CVS are closed on our corporate firewall.

Question #1: Is there another way I might be able to obtain Alexandria or even just Gump?  Question #2: What is the relationship between Gump and Alexandria?  As far as I've been able to gather, Gump is a subproject of Alexandria.  Beyond that, can one use Gump without getting the rest of Alexandria?  Question #3: What exactly does Gump do/what are Gump's features?

Kyle