On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 16:03 +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > The only thing I can think of is to jar up someone's maven repo and put > it up for download somewhere and say "if u want a quick start, drop this > in your home directory before you say 'maven'". >
The problem is (at least at the moment) that the dependencies change so often that it would be hard to keep a zip/jar current. In my experience (and maybe others have different problems) the longest delays are caused by the repositories not responding/timing out. The -o option is the only way to get around this, as otherwise even the hash comparison will cause the timeouts. Unfortunately if you have an out- of-date dependency, as often happens, you're out of luck. You can use a caching proxy to help out, but you still have to worry about keeping the cache current. -Bill
