Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at 18:42:33 (+0100), Martin Fuzzey wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the   Repository? 
> Why or why not
>
> 
> We do quite lot of  Java developpement with CVS and we handle jars like this :
> 
> 1) Jars that _we generate_ are not stored in CVS, only the sources are.
> 2) 3rd party Jars that we use are stored on an internal web server (one 
> directory per jar with a sub directory per version)
> 3) We use an ANT build script to obtain the required jars from the web 
> server at build time (this build script - XML file _is_ stored in CVS)
> 4) Sometimes our output jars are in fact input to other products, in this 
> case we upload them to the web server so that other projects can get them.
> 
> All of the above is automated by use of ANT (if you don't know this tool 
> take a look at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html)
> It gives you all the bricks you need to to the the HTTP, FTP, CVS etc.

Perfect!  I really like that process!  It should work very well in
combination with using CVS to track changes to your actual sources!

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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