Re: New repository task

2004-12-13 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I suppose that chain of events would suggest that the answer to > your question is "yes", though "finally understood" makes the Ant > committers sound like a bunch of dinosaurs. ;) > >

Re: New repository task

2004-12-08 Thread Matt Benson
--- Russell Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:35:06 -0800 (PST), Matt Benson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > > tasks). Unless I have misunderstood it > dependencies > > is more Maven-centric than so I feel [SNIP] > I believe that you did misunderstand it. The > task i

Re: New repository task

2004-12-08 Thread Russell Gold
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:35:06 -0800 (PST), Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Russell first brought his dependencies task to > the table, I reiterated the general policy regarding > the introduction of new tasks, especially where they > interacted with software other than Ant (aka optional

Re: New repository task

2004-12-08 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Matt Benson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (edited for brevity) > > See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10935231277&r=1&w=2 > > (particularly DD's response) > > and > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=109882328509244&w=2

Re: New repository task

2004-12-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Matt Benson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > It's a sign of the times... >> >> > > See: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10935231277&r=1&w=2 > (p

Re: New repository task

2004-12-07 Thread Peter Reilly
I think that for this to be really usefull, one would need to use the task. See http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28228 It does have some issues (sub-projects affecting the main project, and when ant is used in an ide) but it's benifits outweigh the drawbacks.. For example: jun

Re: New repository task

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:22:40 -0600, Groboclown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, and this is important, you dont need to use it to download stuff. > > Instead you can use it to manage libraries that you depend on

Re: New repository task

2004-12-07 Thread Groboclown
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, and this is important, you dont need to use it to download stuff. > Instead you can use it to manage libraries that you depend on. (We may > want to change behaviour to say if you dont specify a repository, that

Re: New repository task

2004-12-07 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Matt Benson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's a sign of the times... > > See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10935231277&r=1&w=2 (particularly DD's response) and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=109882

Re: New repository task

2004-12-07 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a sign of the times... Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New repository task

2004-12-06 Thread Russell Gold
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One thing I can't find is why this is being put into ant core and not > > an optional task. Could anyone help me out here? Thanks. > > It's a bootstrapping thing. If its optional, well, its optional so it > may

Re: New repository task

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Loughran
> > One thing I can't find is why this is being put into ant core and not > an optional task. Could anyone help me out here? Thanks. It's a bootstrapping thing. If its optional, well, its optional so it may not be there. Which makes it a lot harder to use the task to retrieve optional stuff.

Re: New repository task

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Benson
It's a sign of the times... -Matt --- Groboclown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been out of the Ant developer discussions for > about two or three > months now (way too much going on), and I'm trying > to get caught up on > the repository task. > > One thing I can't find is why this is being