Michael Bayne
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Why does the Java dependency management world have to suck so badly? Is it not
crazy to want projects to be able to publish their own releases and to make it
easy for other projects to depend on those published releases? Why do I have to
reconfigure the standard configuration to add new repository sources? Why
doesn't the IvyRep resolver work and do something sophisticated?
Why can't I just fucking put in my ivy.xml:
<dependency org="com.samskivert" name="samskivert" rev="1.0" conf="runtime"
source="http://samskivert.googlecode.com/svn/releases"/>
and have Ivy do something smart like assume that there will be a standard
directory structure at the specified root and that it will contain the ivy.xml
and module.jar file that it needs, and just download them?
Instead I have to write a ton of fucking boilerplate and wire it all in via a
separate ivysettings.xml file, and then helpfully instruct anyone who uses my
fucking library that they too can have the pleasure of doing the same.
Depot Persistence Library ------------------------- Depot is a relational persistence library for Java. It is an ORM library, but has aims that are somewhat different from the popular "managed" persistence libraries like Hibernate and others. Website ------- See the Depot website for documentation and other info: http://code.google.com/p/depot/ Building -------- The library is built using ant. It can be found here: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ Next, ensure that the necessary third party jar files are copied to the lib/ directory. See etc/libs-incl.xml for the list of those jar files. Finally invoke 'ant dist' to compile the code and generate a jar file. Invoke 'ant -p' to see information on other build targets. Depot also provides .classpath and .project files for Eclipse users which require that you set an EXT_LIBS_DIR variable indicating the location of the external jar dependencies. The Depot Eclipse project also depends on the Eclipse project for the samskivert library. That library can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/samskivert/ License and Distribution ------------------------ Depot is released under the LGPL. This means you are free to use Depot on any project, open source or proprietary, but that any modifications made to the library must be made available to the maintainers. See COPYING for more detailed information. The most recent version of the Depot source code is available at the website listed above. $Id$