Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
It would be quite easy to add a very easy installation to help improve developers first experience with ivy.
If the jars are available online, a few lines of xml in an ant build is enough:
- download ivy.jar from jayasoft web site to /home/jira/.ivy/install/ivy.jar
- build a path with that location
- init ivy with this path
That's all, ivy is then ready to be used.
Combined with the new inline resolve feature, this could be a very simple first tutorial, usable without even an installation from any machine with ant already installed.
What could be even better is to use ivy itself to install ivy with its dependencies... it's more difficult, cause you need to havee ivy to install ivy. So the solution would be to download ivy as explained above and then to use it to download only its dependencies. But this require a modification in ivy to add a better filtering mechanism in inline retrieve. And it won't be possible to usee the freshly installed ivy with its dependencies as part of the same build. So maybe this is simply too much, ivy alone without dependencies already has a lot of features.