Re: Question about documentation

2012-10-13 Thread Xavier MARTIN
Also it seems you are focussing on JAVA project, but it can be used with any kind of projects, not just JAVA (which might confuse beginners ;) ) -- Xavier MARTIN aka zeflasher or xxlm Visit my website if you love flash: http://www.

Re: Question about documentation

2012-10-13 Thread Xavier MARTIN
Might even be able to translate this in French if you are keen :) -- Xavier MARTIN aka zeflasher or xxlm Visit my website if you love flash: http://www.webbymx.net http://dev.webbymx.net

Re: Question about documentation

2012-10-13 Thread Xavier MARTIN
Would you mind corrections? Not about the information (maybe) but more about the writing, etc. I am not English myself but spotted some things. Take care -- Xavier MARTIN aka zeflasher or xxlm Visit my website if you love flash: ht

Re: Question about documentation

2012-10-13 Thread Xavier MARTIN
Awesome thanks. I have to educate my workmate to IVY. Hopefully your book will help... I'll let you know. Thanks for the work done anyways... -- Xavier MARTIN aka zeflasher or xxlm Visit my website if you love flash: http://www.we

Re: Question about documentation

2012-10-13 Thread maithilish bhat
One of the frequently asked question by *new Ivy users* is to suggest a tutorial which can help them to understand Ivy in easy steps. Understanding their frustration, as I too had struggled a lot with my first Ivy enabled project, i have written *Apache Ivy - Beginners Guide* ( in PDF format ) whi

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread David Harrigan
:-) > > Maarten > > > > > - Original Message > From: David Harrigan > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 9:10:13 PM > Subject: Re: Question about documentation > > Maarten, > > Not using svn. All my stuff is up on bitbucket or github...what > a

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread Maarten Coene
Hehe, I was trying to help David Sills to solve his problem checking out Ivy from SVN :-) Maarten - Original Message From: David Harrigan To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 9:10:13 PM Subject: Re: Question about documentation Maarten, Not using svn. All my

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread David Harrigan
heckout? > > Maarten > > > > - Original Message > From: David Sills > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 12:44:21 PM > Subject: RE: Question about documentation > > Steve: > > I'm almost embarrassed to say that I still

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread Maarten Coene
David, I can't see your attachement, but maybe you have a proxy server that is blocking your SVN checkout? Maarten - Original Message From: David Sills To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 12:44:21 PM Subject: RE: Question about documentation Steve: I

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread Maarten Coene
From: David Harrigan To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 8:51:29 PM Subject: Re: Question about documentation Another one... I've started to publish my articles on using Ivy. No prior knowledge is assumed! http://dharrigan.com Have a look and if you feel inclined, help

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-08 Thread David Harrigan
toiseSVN in Windows. Thanks for trying, >> though! I'd still like to help if we can figure out how. >> >> David Sills >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Steve Miller [mailto:thatguy1...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 06

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-07 Thread Jorge Medina
ng tortoiseSVN in Windows. Thanks for trying, > though! I'd still like to help if we can figure out how. > > David Sills > > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Miller [mailto:thatguy1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:29 AM > To: ivy-user@ant.apach

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-07 Thread David Sills
com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:29 AM To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about documentation https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/core/trunk/doc Here's what I use with tortoisesvn in windows. There is no prompt. You can try it in a browser to double check.

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread Niklas Matthies
On Tue 2010-10-05 at 21:25h, Archie Cobbs wrote on ivy-user: : > Actually that's not quite right. The dependencies are not talking about JAR > files, they are talking about modules. : > *configuration* = a name that you give to some subset of the *artifacts* in > a *revision*; if none are defined "

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread Steve Miller
> > -Original Message- > From: Maarten Coene [mailto:maarten_co...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:28 AM > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question about documentation > > Could you try the "http" URL instead of the "https" URL? > > Maarten > >

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread David Sills
Thanks Maarten, but I get a 403 error. David Sills -Original Message- From: Maarten Coene [mailto:maarten_co...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:28 AM To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about documentation Could you try the "http" URL instead of

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread Maarten Coene
Could you try the "http" URL instead of the "https" URL? Maarten - Original Message From: David Sills To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 11:31:47 AM Subject: RE: Question about documentation All: I tried to check out the docs according to

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread David Sills
All: I tried to check out the docs according to the instructions to start thinking about how they might be reworked a bit to be clearer to novices but immediately ran into a username-password challenge. I assume that anonymous checkout (at least of the docs) was intended, but perhaps the repositor

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread David Sills
Geoff: Believe it or not, I had read all but the Maven-focused reference before coming to the list (!). And I had gotten IvyDE as well and tried to use it. I intend to persevere, however (on my own time, but then that's so common anyway - I wake up every morning realizing I'm now obsolete and tha

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread David Sills
Archie: You are of course quite right about the distinction, but I was thinking on a purely practical basis about what would appear in the file system. Thanks! (Your term definitions, by the way, are much clearer to me than those in the documentation.) David Sills

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-06 Thread David Sills
All: Many, many thanks to all who replied. David Sills

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Sills wrote: > > conf="javac,test->default"/> > conf="base->runtime-xpp3,extras;bind->bind"/> > conf="javac->default"/> > > > I understand that this means: > > 1. There are 3 dependencies for the module. > 2. The JAR file log4j

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Geoff Clitheroe
This is excellent: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap05068/index.html?ca=drs- This has a very good chapter - it's a little old (pre move to Apache) but the concepts are the same. http://www.manning.com/loughran/ This has a section in a chapter but I haven't read the book http

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Miller
See below: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, David Sills wrote: > Alex: > > Thanks. That clarified a lot, as did actually going to the ivysettings > file, grabbing the pattern, and substituting the values for organization > and so forth from some of the dependencies in the ivy.xml file. The XML > t

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
Alex: Thanks. That clarified a lot, as did actually going to the ivysettings file, grabbing the pattern, and substituting the values for organization and so forth from some of the dependencies in the ivy.xml file. The XML that my browser grabbed made things a good deal clearer and I see your point

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Alex Foreman
p would be gratefully received. Sorry for a short answer but trying to give as much information without to much verbosity. confs are not immediatly apparent but when you understand them they are truly great and very powerful. HTH in some way. > > David Sills > > > -Original Mess

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
like this. Any help would be gratefully received. David Sills -Original Message- From: archie.co...@gmail.com [mailto:archie.co...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Archie Cobbs Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:50 AM To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about documentation Maybe a simple

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
nough to ask questions. And this > should give someone pause, given what I bring to the table in the way of > experience and intelligence. > > Again, many thanks for your intent. > > David > > > -Original Message- > From: Kirby Files [mailto:kfi...@masergy.com] &g

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
intent. David -Original Message- From: Kirby Files [mailto:kfi...@masergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:30 AM To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Subject: RE: Question about documentation Sorry, David, I cannot help provide a link to different documentation. In regards to understanding

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Kirby Files
Sorry, David, I cannot help provide a link to different documentation. In regards to understanding Ivy better, one thing that I'd recommend is reading everything you can about the dependency conf attribute and defaultConfMapping. I didn't truly understand what I was doing with Ivy until I had a

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
David Harrigan: Many thanks for your reply. If there's any help I can be for your Ivy 101 articles (not only am I a rank beginner, with a beginner's perspective, which can sometimes be useful; but I was also an editor in a publishing house for 5 years, so I know a little about writing as well), pl

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Harrigan
Hi David, I understand you frustration. The documentation isn't that great. At the moment I'm putting together a set of Ivy 101 articles that may be of benefit to others. I too went though time and effort to learn it and still some things are not too clear. However, I did get it to work, even to p