Hello, At the company I work for, we are looking into update our build/source control/continuous integration tools. As part of this, we are looking into tools for managing third-party dependencies and for management of our own build objects.
So I have some questions on what we could do with artifactory: (1) I understand artifactory can cache third-party repositories (such as maven central). Does artifactory also contain tools for building our own third-party dependencies repository? We don't want to be dependent on third-party repositories (such as maven central) in the build process, as we have no control over these repositories. Artifacts can be moved/deleted. URLs can change. We may only want developers to use approved open source libraries. We may also want to introduce more consistent naming for third-party artifacts (similar to what is done with the ivy namespaces feature when building an internal third-party repository). Can artifactory help us with this? (2) Is it possible to refactor an existing repository with artifactory? For example, change the org name for an artifact and have all other artifacts which depend on this automatically update with the new name. Again, this is an issue with bringing over objects from maven central. There are a lot of inconsistencies, but if you try and correct them you need to make sure that all depending artifact ivy/pom files are also updated. (3) I see in the pro version there is more advanced management of open source licenses. How do you get the original licenses for artifacts? Extract them from the pom comments? If a license is not specified, I see that it allows a license to be specified. Is this manually specified license information added to the pom/ivy file? Is it possible to add additional metadata information (e.g. an explanation of what the artifact does) which can appear in a dependency report? (4) Can artifactory be useful at all for managing directories and deploying artifacts for languages other than java (e.g. Objective-C, .NET)? Any information that could be provided would be much appreciated. thanks in advance, Gareth -- View this message in context: http://forums.jfrog.org/Artifactory-Evaluation-Questions-tp6492030p6492030.html Sent from the Artifactory - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Artifactory-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/artifactory-users
