Thanks Jason, that info is very helpful.
The reason why this is appropriate for the dev list is, I think, I am
asking "shouldn't Ivy/IvyDE do this natively?"
I guess you could call this a feature request (which I would be willing
to implement myself) to make Ivy better support non-jars. I don't want
myself (and others) to have to write stuff in our build scripts to
handle this if it could be done by ivy itself. So the discussion I want
to start is, "is there a reason why this isn't already included? are
people deadset against supporting non-jar dependencies?"
Many java projects depend upon things which are not jars, so it seems
like it should be innate functionality, not something for which "a
workaround happens to exist, with some work".
Thoughts?
Thanks!
-Carl
On 08/15/2010 02:28 PM, Jason Trump wrote:
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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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!
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