Hi developers, Is there an intended order that can be assumed in the array of dependencies that are returned by ResolveEngine.getDependencies()?
I am hoping, for example, that the artifactreport Ant Task returns the dependencies consistently in "directness" order; in particular, I would like to be able to iterate (backwards) through the list such that each artifact depends only on artifacts that have already been seen in the list. My few experiments so far (including with a DAG dependency structure) indicate that this is indeed the case; however, I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation that explicitly says this will be the case. Perusing the code, it looks like the order that artifactreport provides is determined by the order provided by ResolveEngine.getDependencies() (yes?). The javadoc is silent on the issue of order; however, code and code comments indicate care taken to sort and preserve an order of the results. Can anyone comment on the intent? FYI, I'm looking at using Ivy to manage a stack of software that includes both java and non-java packages. Some of these, for example, are GNU-style built via configure-make-install. I want to be able to actually build the packages (via ant wrapper scripts) as dependencies, and I need to do this bottom-up in dependency order. thanks, Ray --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
