Le 28 août 08 à 10:33, Xavier Hanin a écrit :

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Gilles Scokart
> <gscokart@(protected):
>
>> Now that the default is true, it means that if someone specify a
>> version latest.integration, ivy will first look if the ivy file can
>> be
>> found using the 'latest.integration' token.
>> If it is false, ivy will directly list the revisions, and according
>> to
>> the latest strategy find the latest one.
>>
>> The performance impact on file system resolver is minor (just one
>> file.exist per latest.integration dependency). But might be bigger
>> with http (or other) remote repository.
>>
>> The effect of changing the default value will be that the people that
>> use repositories containing an explicit text 'latest.integration' in
>> their pattern will have to adpat their settings.
>>
>> I'm not sure how many people use this kind of repository. And I'm
>> not
>> even sure if ivy has support to publish to this kind of repository.
>> We
>> should maybe poll the ivy user community (I'm not sure it would give
>> any result, but we can try).
>
> I don't know if polling the community is worth it. I'm not talking
> about
> discarding this feature, but only changing the default. I may be
> wrong, but
> I suspect that less than 1% of Ivy users actually use this feature
> (it may
> even be 0). Even if it's 10%, I still think the default should be
> false. But
> if you really think we should poll the community first, I'm ok, I
> just don't
> want to loose too much time for a minor change like this.

As the final release is not yet out, I think it is safe to change the
default and put a note in the documentation about that change.

Nicolas


>
>
> Xavier
>
>
>>
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>>
>> 2008/8/26 Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@(protected)>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've already suggested this a couple of times, I'd like to change
>>> the
>>> default value of alwaysCheckExactRevision from true to false. IMO
>>> this is
>>> almost never actually used, slightly degrades performance and
>>> sometimes
>> lead
>>> to annoying bugs like invalid URLs (which should be fixed now). So,
>> anyone
>>> against the idea of changing this default value?
>>>
>>> Xavier
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gilles Scokart
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