Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-28 Thread Carl Myers
Nicolas - Thanks, this info is very helpful. I will investigate and be sure to let you know if I have any feedback. -Carl On 08/24/2010 02:03 AM, Nicolas Lalevée wrote: Le 24 août 2010 à 00:47, Carl Myers a écrit : The "common and reusable" pattern is "I have a mess of files". Why does it

Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-24 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
Le 24 août 2010 à 00:47, Carl Myers a écrit : > The "common and reusable" pattern is "I have a mess of files". Why does it > need to be more specific? > > Some examples: > > 1. Our custom build system consists of several xml and properties files. We > would like to version our build system

Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-23 Thread Carl Myers
The "common and reusable" pattern is "I have a mess of files". Why does it need to be more specific? Some examples: 1. Our custom build system consists of several xml and properties files. We would like to version our build system itself so that just a small ant script is used to pull the b

Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-19 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
Le 19 août 2010 à 03:15, Carl Myers a écrit : > 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 >

Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-18 Thread Carl Myers
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 do

Re: Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-15 Thread Jason Trump
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

Publishing non-jar artifacts

2010-08-14 Thread Carl Myers
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 als