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*Re: maintainability* Over the past year several add-ons have been included in Ant build functions to use Apache Ivy as the engine to download jars required by specific functions. E.g. for PostgreSQL Activemq, Cobertura and Sonar. This should be expanded more, as it lessens the burden on maintenance and size of svn checkouts and distributions. Given that always a build phase is required when having downloaded OFBiz, this build phase could retrieve the jar (and other) files required. Using Apache Ivy more, could also circumvent the licensing issues regarding external products, as none of the external products are actually included in distributions. 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 2:42 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
