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Welcome to Ivy RoundUp
Ivy RoundUp is an online Ivy repository meant to be shared by all Ivy users.
Instead of hosting Ivy module definition files (ivy.xml files) and artifacts together on the same site, this site hosts only the module definition files plus additional meta-data (packager.xml files) that describes how to download and extract (if necessary) the module's artifacts on-demand at the point of use.
This new type of repository is made possible by the Packager Resolver, a new Ivy resolver in available Ivy 2.0 that supports downloading, extracting and repackaging (as necessary) artifacts on-demand.
The Packager Resolver allows for a clearer separation between two jobs which don't necessarily go together: maintaining Ivy meta-data, and hosting the actual artifacts. The focus of the Ivy RoundUp project is the first task.
In addition, it's easy to use the Ivy RoundUp repository's meta-data to build a normal repository containing artifacts.
Our goals are:
- To maintain an Ivy repository that is:
- Comprehensive: containing all of your favorite stuff
- Up-to-date: rapid inclusion of newly released software
- Refined: full use of Ivy's powerful configuration definitions and dependency mappings
- Self-consistent: consistency in naming with respect to organizations, modules, configurations, and dependencies, according to documented standards and guidelines
- To facilitate the easy creation of a normal Ivy repository based on the Ivy RoundUp meta-data
- To grow an active community of maintainers (want to help?) each of whom is motivated by their own personal interest in, and daily use of, the modules they maintain
- To become the premiere community Ivy repository on the Internet
Want to try it out? Download the version of Ivy from the link on the right, or
- Install the latest version of Ivy from SVN:
- Check out the latest Ivy source code: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/core/trunk
- Type ant jar then install the modified ivy (in build/artifact/jars/ivy.jar)
- Configure your ivysettings.xml as described here.
Interested in learning more? Join us on the Ivy RoundUp mailing list! Or read how you can help.
You can also view the modules contained in Ivy RoundUp so far.