[ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 available

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

The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its
2.0.0 beta 2 release, a new step on the road toward 2.0 final.

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

This is a beta release, for wide testing with users. Problems found
at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time to
download and use it. Although there may be some changes at
the API level, it is already being in production builds in many large Java
projects.

Key features of the 2.0.0-beta2 release are
* enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with a fully rewritten pom parser
* improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching
with fine grain TTL
* namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with
extra attributes
* easier settings loading, which do not require an id anymore
* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

Issues should be reported to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.0.0-beta2 release files at:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

Regards,
Xavier Hanin (Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 release mgr)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 available

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

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Kito D. Mann <km...@virtua.com> wrote:

> Xavier,
>
> Congrats on the new release. What's the current status of IvyDE?

IvyDE is making progress much quicker than before thanks to the involvment
of Nicolas Lalevée, who has recently become a committer. Unfortunately he's
slow down by the time required to process his ICLA, but he already has
plenty of very good pending patches, just waiting for him to have his commit
rights.

Unfortunately, making a release of IvyDE soon would require even more
efforts, to clean the code base, make sure we don't have any license issue,
reach a satisfying level of stability, and improve our build scripts to be
able to have a reproducible and documented release process for IvyDE as we
have for Ivy. So without more contribution from outside I think it will be
difficult to change our plan which is to release IvyDE when Ivy 2.0 final
will be out (and there's still a lot of issues to fix for Ivy 2.0 final, as
you can see in JIRA).

On a positive note, I'll try to make a build of IvyDE from trunk, run very
basic tests, and upload it where I put my own unofficial builds:
http://xoocode.org/downloads/tools/

Xavier


>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Kito D. Mann - Author, JavaServer Faces in Action
> http://www.virtua.com - JSF/Java EE consulting, training, and mentoring
> http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:xavier.hanin@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:04 PM
> > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org; Ant Users List; Ant Developers List;
> > announce@apache.org
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 available
> >
> > The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its
> > 2.0.0 beta 2 release, a new step on the road toward 2.0 final.
> >
> > Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
> > reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
> > configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.
> >
> > This is a beta release, for wide testing with users. Problems found
> > at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time
> > to
> > download and use it. Although there may be some changes at
> > the API level, it is already being in production builds in many large
> > Java
> > projects.
> >
> > Key features of the 2.0.0-beta2 release are
> > * enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with a fully rewritten pom parser
> > * improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching
> > with fine grain TTL
> > * namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with
> > extra attributes
> > * easier settings loading, which do not require an id anymore
> > * numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes
> >
> > Issues should be reported to:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY
> >
> > Download the 2.0.0-beta2 release files at:
> > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi
> >
> > More information can be found on the Ivy website:
> > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xavier Hanin (Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 release mgr)
>
>


-- 
Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
http://xhab.blogspot.com/
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
http://www.xoocode.org/

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 available

["Kito D. Mann" <km...@virtua.com>]

Xavier,

Congrats on the new release. What's the current status of IvyDE?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kito D. Mann - Author, JavaServer Faces in Action
http://www.virtua.com - JSF/Java EE consulting, training, and mentoring
http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:xavier.hanin@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:04 PM
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org; Ant Users List; Ant Developers List;
> announce@apache.org
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 available
> 
> The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its
> 2.0.0 beta 2 release, a new step on the road toward 2.0 final.
> 
> Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
> reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
> configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.
> 
> This is a beta release, for wide testing with users. Problems found
> at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time
> to
> download and use it. Although there may be some changes at
> the API level, it is already being in production builds in many large
> Java
> projects.
> 
> Key features of the 2.0.0-beta2 release are
> * enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with a fully rewritten pom parser
> * improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching
> with fine grain TTL
> * namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with
> extra attributes
> * easier settings loading, which do not require an id anymore
> * numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes
> 
> Issues should be reported to:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY
> 
> Download the 2.0.0-beta2 release files at:
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi
> 
> More information can be found on the Ivy website:
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
> 
> Regards,
> Xavier Hanin (Apache Ivy 2.0.0-beta2 release mgr)