Hi Plamen, > Using GitHub as Maven repository?
Yup. At least to have it as a choice. I'm imagining putting releases for my esoteric, long-tail ideas, on Github *rather than littering Maven Central.* But also allowing Maven/Grade/Ivy projects to source the deps from there directly. The publishing binaries to Github isn't the problem I'm trying to solve - it is the acquisition of deps as builds needs them. Want to take this offline ? - Paul On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Plamen Totev <plamen.iv.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I had a similar idea. Could you please elaborate what you want to > achieve? Using GitHub as Maven repository? > > I was looking at the matter myself. I didn't spend much time so I have only > basic understanding of the problems involved and how to solve them. > As far I know there are (even several) Maven plug-ins that allows you to > publish Maven artifact to GitHub using the Releases API. But I didn't find > a way to use GitHub Releases as Maven Repository. > > In any case I think the Wagon plug-in is the one that provides the > transport > and the one that should be extended in order to be able to reprieve > artifacts from a new service, not the Dependency plug-in. > > Regards, > Plamen Totev > > On Jun 4, 2017 14:23, "Paul Hammant" <p...@hammant.org> wrote: > > > So I have 27 releases of XStream unzipped and pushed to > > https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-classes > > > > (8.4M of Jars is now 2.4M of bare .git repo) > > > > All the jars are still available - here - > > https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-classes/releases > > > > Perfect except: > > > > > > 1. .zip suffix instead of .jar > > 2. there's a pesky root folder inside the zip, that matches the tag > name > > (GitHub's policy I guess for downloads). > > 3. the signatures won't match those for the originals up on 'Central. > > > > I want to fork (experimentally) maven-dependency-plugin (it's in > Subversion > > now, but the fork should be on GitHub of course), and sprinkle in some > > https://github.com/zeroturnaround/zt-zip in order to (1) rename the zip > on > > download from GitHub, and (2) remove the root folder inside the zip > without > > a mechanical unzip/rezip ... then put theresult in ~/.m2/repository/ as > > normal. > > > > There's probably some pom.xml creativity needed too. > > > > Any takers? > > > > - Paul > > >
