[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] Use Apache Ivy to fetch dependencies, put them in dist

Mon Jan 23 12:52:40 GMT 2012

Hi

> I emailed Scott Crosby to ask if he'd be willing to publish osmpbf to
> the Maven Central Repository.  If it is published, ivy can download it
> and we can get rid of the build-support/repo directory entirely.

OK lets see how that works out. It is already checked into the
splitter repo, so maybe I will just link to that for now.

> Alternatively, we can configure ivy to download the jar from osmosis's
> files at GitHub.  I skimmed GitHub's terms of service and didn't see
> anything prohibiting such usage, but we would probably want to ask
> permission anyway.

Presumably I can create an ivy repo on mkgmap.org.uk too?

> We could perhaps add an 'extras' ant target that downloads those
> dependencies and builds those sources.  Or they could be moved into the
> main build.

Yes it seems like a good oportunity to make that stuff build easily.

..Steve