Hi Carl, Not to nit-pick, but this is probably better a question for the users mailing list than the dev mailing list.
I haven't tried this myself, but here's an idea: 1) You can configure IvyDE to retrieve your dependencies into the workspace on resolve. It might be useful to create a special Ivy configuration like 'ide' for these extra dependencies so that they go into 'lib/ide/**'. 2) You could then add an Ant Builder to your project, which executes a specified ant target whenever the 'lib/ide' folder changes. The Ant Builder can also be configured to refresh the target directories in your eclipse workspace where the resources have been unpacked. here's some aging-but-still-relevant eclipse docs on setting up Ant Builder: http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-93_project_builder.htm HTH jason On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Carl Myers <cmy...@palantir.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > We use ivy for dependency management but now we need to depend on things > that are not jars (as an example, a java keystore, a text file containing a > license, a .sql file describing a db schema). > > Currently we have a custom build system in ant which leverages ivy ant > tasks, but we also have developers using IvyDE in Eclipse. I want to be > able to publish, and consume, non-jar dependencies in both places. This > means Ivy would need to be able to "unbundle" the contents of a > jar/zip/whatever to a specific location on resolve. > > I know that ant hooks exist to do things like this, but will they work in > IvyDE? Is that the way to go? If this does require dev work, how would you > expect it to be done to be most likely to be accepted as a patch? > > Thanks! > -- > Carl Myers > Palantir Technologies | Internal Tools Software Engineer > cmy...@palantir.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > >
