Michael Bayne
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getdown-pro.jar and it's only 10% larger (109k -> 121k), and it vastly simplifies life for users. Just use getdown-pro.jar for all of your Getdown-related needs: - use it to install your application - use it in your build scripts for the various Getdown tasks - link against it in your app to use LaunchUtil or to embed Getdown We'll even ship this on the website as simply getdown.jar. I'm tempted to ship this in Maven and modify the main Getdown POM to not export any of its dependencies. However, that will require a bunch of build file tweaking, which I'd rather save for another day.
What is it? ----------- Getdown (yes, it's the funky stuff) aims to provide a system for downloading and installing a collection of files on a user's machine and upgrading those files as needed. Though just any collection of files would do, Getdown is mainly intended for the distribution and maintenance of the collection of files that make up an application. See the Google Code project for documentation and other information: http://code.google.com/p/getdown Building -------- Getdown is built with Maven in the standard ways. Invoke the following commands, for fun and profit: % mvn compile # builds the classes % mvn test # builds and runs the unit tests % mvn package # builds and creates jar file % mvn install # builds, jars and installs in your local Maven repository