Hello! Does anybody think about imlementation a "Debian APT"-like tool on the top of an Ivy dependency manager. It can manage all java binaries and source installation in the system on user level, through home directory located workspace, or on admin level through FHS on Unix systems.
For the give what I mean I write some high level usage examples, which can be used in unit tests): $ jpt install apache-ant-1.7.0 by this command ant and all of its dependencies (jars and maybe other resources such jpt run configurations) are get downloaded and become available in ivy cache and it can be run by: $ jpt run apache-ant This execution will find and organize classpath through ivy depencies review, and than run spesified class (which is specified through jpt run configuation XML file) $ jpt wrap apache-ant ant Creates system dependent warapper script for running application through 'jpt run'. $ ant will now execute $ jpt run apache-ant $ jpt unwrap ant now wrapper no more exist $ ant no such command $ jpt uninstall apache-ant-1.7.0 deletes a softfare binaries if there is no dependencies remain And so on. In future it can manage also the libraries source code. And be used for development environment buildings based on ant or gant scripts. So many software can be integrated on the top of spring framework etc. This is the system of my dream! So I will be very glad if you tell me, if such the system have already exist or why to not imlement such as a thin wrapper across the Ivy? -- Best regards, Alexey Lunacharsky (http://alun.katlex.com/en)
