Hi Gareth,
To answer your questions:
1. Yes, you can configure your own customizable repositories with
individual policies and permissions (see
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/Managing+Repositories).
2. Artifactory provides you with the ability to move and copy artifacts
between repositories, but you cannot re-author their details; GAVC\OMRC can
only be assigned at the time of deployment.
3. Correct, license info is extracted from the artifact's descriptor
(POM\Ivy, see
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/License+Control) and stored
as metadata on the artifact.
Also, any additional custom metadata can be added to any artifact\folder
(see
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/Attaching+and+Reading+Metadata
).
4. Yes, artifactory is completely language and mostly build-tool
agnostic, especially with the help of the Repository Layouts addon (
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/Repository+Layouts).
Noam
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:00 AM, gcollins <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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
>
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