Beginnings of automated Java library publishing, dependency tracking and

downloading system.


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projects/depends/docs/design.txt

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+Dependency system design
+------------------------
+
+- Two interfaces: Java object interface and ANT wrapper
+
+- If possible, use no external libraries to avoid bootstrapping problems
+  (can't use depends to download depends for depends):
+  + make use of built-in Java XML parsing services
+  + make use of built-in Java logging services
+  + will have to "depend" on ant
+
+- Object interface available via the following classes:
+
+  public class Dependency
+  {
+      public String getLibraryName ();
+
+      public File getLocalJar ();
+
+      public boolean isUpToDate ();
+
+      public void bringUpToDate ();
+  }
+
+  public class DependencyParser
+  {
+      public <Dependency>List parseDependencies (
+          File definition, File repository);
+  }
+
+  public class LibraryDescriptor
+  {
+  }