Hi, IMHO it would be much better to build a clean, well-organized and reliable ivy repository instead of supporting that maven garbage. By the way, why was IvyRep abandoned? I think that would be the best solution, to have an official ivy rep., ideally containing artifacts too. I have nothing against [better] supporting maven reps for those who prefer it, but I don't see why it should have a higher priority than supporting an ivy rep. Anyway, I've never used maven (and from what I read about it, I avoided a world of suffering), and during the few minutes I spent with the ibiblio resolver before ditching it, I found these main problems: - bad org names - very old versions for some modules - source and javadoc artifacts not supported (except by IvyDE) Therefore the only solution was to manually build an "enterprise repository" from scratch. This could be avoided if an IvyRep was maintained (at least I could do "install").
Just a new user's opinion :) Adrian ----- Original Message ---- From: Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 2:44:15 AM Subject: Add maven2 resolver? Hi, Now that Ivy is using maven 2 repository as default public repository, and that we see many people trying to leverage maven 2 repositories, I'm wondering if we shouldn't introduce a maven2 resolver. This resolver would basically be the equivalent of ibiblio resolver with m2compatible set to true. The advantage is a better name, and we can make also other improvements. For instance, we could set checkConsistency to false on this resolver, since pretty often people complain about inconsitencies in maven2 repo (see for instance last comments on [1]). We may also set the changingPattern to make SNAPSHOT dependencies work (more than that needs to be done, this should be addressed in IVY-501). We may even try to make this resolver leverage maven2 cache, for people who work with both Ivy and maven 2 on the same machine. WDYT? Xavier [1] http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com/2007/11/maven-wont-get-fooled-again.html -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
