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[Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Stefan,

that's what I thought... I currently do not store the JARs in the repo
at all, but I'll add then later so you don't have to assemble them :-)

Cheers,
Philipp

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Stefan Mai <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Philipp,
> When you build Syncany under Windows, where in the repository are you
> storing dependencies? I'm having a bit of trouble assembling the correct
> versions of all the missing jars.
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> With regard to the variety of Linux distributions and other OSs
>> Syncany is (hopefully) going to be used on, I think we need to do some
>> sort of dependency management. Some packages are available on some
>> systems, others are not. Especially on Windows (and OSX?), all
>> dependencies have to be shipped with the application.
>>
>> Does anybody know how other projects do that?
>>
>> >From the top of my head, I'd suggest to have all required JARs in the
>> library folder and write different Ant scripts for the different
>> platforms. However, that would mean that the library folder would
>> become very large very quickly...
>>
>> Any other ideas? Comments? Anybody interested in doing that? Would be
>> of great help!
>>
>> I think the above dependency issues are also relevant for the plugins
>> and their dependencies. I believe carrying around all the plugins with
>> the main application is not a good thing, because most people will use
>> only one or two of them. I think it would be great to have one JAR
>> file per plugin and the possibility to put them in a plugin folder
>> (e.g. ~/.syncany/plugins).
>>
>> Again, I could really use some help with this so I can concentrate on
>> the main synchronization algorithm.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Philipp
>>
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