Like I already suggested in my posting of Jan 5th in 2014 (see section 'Re: Maintainablity' in thread 'OFBiz in 2014 ( http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBiz-In-2014-tt4646641.html#a4646776).
And for which I provided the JIRA issue , see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5464. Are we going to revisit that? Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Sharan Foga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > There has been a bit of work going on in the background regarding how our > releases need to handle external dependencies. This is the first of two > emails to let everyone know what has been happening and also to get > community feedback. > > While working on re-factoring the trunk dependencies we realised that our > current 13.07 release didn't meet the ASF guidelines for handling > dependencies. Essentially releases must only contain source code and should > not include external dependencies such as jar files. > > To resolve this as quickly and simply as possible, the PMC decided to use > Ivy (a dependency management tool) that is already included in OFBiz to > manage the dependencies. > > So what will change? > > - When you download the OFBIz 13.07 release, it will only contain source > code > - You will need to run a script to download the external OFBiz dependent > files (e.g. jar files) > - You compile OFBiz as normal > > These changes will also need to be done in all our active release branches > (e.g. 14.12 and 15.12). > > We will also be communicating this change to our user mailing list and > will be adding specific documentation to ensure that the everyone > understands how downloading and building OFBiz has changed. > > The next steps will be to implement this change and to get our next 13.07 > release update out as soon as possible. > > Thanks > Sharan >
