wrong path on classpathentry

[ghost]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-494
Is this a buildr issue or an ivy4r issue?

This works:
ivy.ivy4r.property['ivy.home'] = path_to('lib')
but shouldn't this also work?:
ivy.ivy4r.property['ivy.lib.dir'] = path_to('lib')
I want a folder with the jars not the whole ivy cache

[klaas1979]

this is not an "issue" at all but the standard way ivy is supposed to work. See my comment at the buildr Bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-494

What do you try to achive? Do you want to do an ivy:retrieve and copy the artifacts into your project dir? Then the eclipse target will not be of any use for you, because ivy4r should use the central cache.

Right now I cannot say what you should do or if ivy4r should work in a different way, because I am not sure what you try to do. Maybe you can comple an example?

Regards Klaas

[ghost]

If I am correct, what you said at jira is to configure ivysettings.xml instead of setting the ivy.ivy4r.property['ivy.home']. As I'm new to Ivy, can you tell me how to set ivy-home path at ivysettings.xml? Ivy documentation is a little confusing...

thank you for your time,
Nikos

[klaas1979]

no not really.

Ivy is like Maven (to simplify a bit). You have a central cache on your system that is used by all projects. Normally you should not have the ivy-home/cache within a single project but at some global location i.e. as default set by ivy "{user.home}/.ivy2"

If you find Ivy to complex you should consider using buildrs inbuild dependency mechanism. It is a lot simpler and may better suit your needs (no transitive dependencies though). I can not give you a shortcut in understanding ivy. It is a very complex system because of the complexity of dependency-management. You really need to wrap your head around ivy to rip it's benefits.

For configuration stuff ivy-settings: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings.html

And then check out the "caches" and "resolvers"

[ghost]

Thanks! Now I have MY cache folder (using defaultCacheDir) and MY jars folder in it(using artifactPattern). Does buildr support changing the artifactPattern?

[klaas1979]

yeah it does this page is your friend from here you find all stuff related to configuration:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/reference.html
check out the Introduction and then Main Concepts, there you will find the Patterns:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/concept.html