Excellent intro for ivy and ant. We had used luntbuild at a previous job because
we couldn’t get ivy and ant to work the way we wanted. You have been bookmarked/stumbled/etc.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll look into that. This is really my first big thing with Ivy, so I obviously have much to learn. I don’t if it’s just me or not (and it likely is), but I’ve had *MUCH* better success in getting v2 to work than I did with v1, so I’m just now finally getting into it.

One small tip about your settings: you can use the module settings instruction to tell Ivy to use one resolver for a particular organization/module/whatever:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/configuration/module.html

I’d suggest moving your sourceforge resolver out of the chain, and tell Ivy to use it only for yui organization. This will improve the performance when you mistype a dependency, Ivy won’t search it on sourceforge which is probably pretty slow.

About YUI, downloading directly the zip to unzip it is a nice solution. However I’d suggest setting up your own repository to put YUI files as modules, if you want better performance. Ivy being language agnostic, it can resolve dependencies on “javascript modules”. Steve, if you need help on how to do this, I suggest joining Ivy mailing list and ask.

At this point at least, I’m only using the YUI DataTable, so I’d rather not include everything.

Thanks for the quick response!

I just had Ivy download the distribution from Sourceforge using the resolver above. Once Ivy was finished, I then unzipped the archive and moved things where I wanted them:

<br /> <if><br /> <not><br /> <available file="${yui.dir}" property="ignored"/><br /> </not></p> <then> <delete dir="${yui.dir}"/><br /> <mkdir dir="${yui.dir}"/><br /> <mkdir dir="yui.work"/><br /> <unzip src="${yui.archive}" dest="yui.work"/><br /> <copy todir="${yui.dir}"><br /> <fileset dir="yui.work/yui/build"><br /> <exclude name="**/.DS_Store"/><br /> </fileset><br /> </copy> </then> </if><br />

As you can see, though, I’m copying everything. That can be easily modified to get just certain parts, but things get trickier if you want just the full, minimized, or debug versions and not the others, which is why I ship it all. At some point, I may add support for changing which version of the JS/CSS file is downloaded. We’ll see.

I’m also trying to add YUI components to my ant/ivy based project.

How did you add YUI to your repository? Did you just zip up the entire build directory, or did you break out the build components?

I’d like to just define ivy dependencies for only those YUI components that I use.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!