Automated Jar Downloading for Stratum

[Jason van Zyl <jv...@zenplex.com>]

Hi,

In an attempt to try and keep JARs out of CVS and to make building easier I
went ahead and modified the Ant <get> task to deal with a text file that
lists a set of dependencices. It will allow you to start with nothing, or
update JARs that have changed in the master repository.

I have tested this, and I just added proxy support for Dan (who happened to
be in IRC when I finished) so people using proxies should be able to get the
JARs as well. I wanted to keep the retrieval method HTTP so people behind
firewalls could get access too.

This is raw but it appears to be working. I am using the Gump/Alexandria
descriptors as the basis of the information, processing the descriptors with
Maven and I had to add some things by hand. Hopefully this will get the ball
rolling and we can make things even easier and cleaner.

Things are setup now so that people who are building will not be affected
and the gump build won't be affected. There is simply an 'update-jars'
target that needs to be invoked manually. We can make this more automatic in
the coming days but I wanted to try it out in stratum and clean it up before
moving on to the other turbine projects and then propose it on a wider scale
for other projects.

I hope this starts to alleviate some of the hassles in building the turbine
projects. Thanks for your patience and in the next couple of days we'll get
this process working for all the turbine projects so we can start moving
forward again.


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Jason van Zyl

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http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria
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Re: Automated Jar Downloading for Stratum

[Jason Kary <jk...@cisco.com>]

Thank you!  Finding the latest greatest jars has always been a pain in 
my butt!

Take Care
Jason Kary


Jason van Zyl wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In an attempt to try and keep JARs out of CVS and to make building easier I
>went ahead and modified the Ant <get> task to deal with a text file that
>lists a set of dependencices. It will allow you to start with nothing, or
>update JARs that have changed in the master repository.
>
>I have tested this, and I just added proxy support for Dan (who happened to
>be in IRC when I finished) so people using proxies should be able to get the
>JARs as well. I wanted to keep the retrieval method HTTP so people behind
>firewalls could get access too.
>
>This is raw but it appears to be working. I am using the Gump/Alexandria
>descriptors as the basis of the information, processing the descriptors with
>Maven and I had to add some things by hand. Hopefully this will get the ball
>rolling and we can make things even easier and cleaner.
>
>Things are setup now so that people who are building will not be affected
>and the gump build won't be affected. There is simply an 'update-jars'
>target that needs to be invoked manually. We can make this more automatic in
>the coming days but I wanted to try it out in stratum and clean it up before
>moving on to the other turbine projects and then propose it on a wider scale
>for other projects.
>
>I hope this starts to alleviate some of the hassles in building the turbine
>projects. Thanks for your patience and in the next couple of days we'll get
>this process working for all the turbine projects so we can start moving
>forward again.
>
>




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