Jason,

If it is just 10 seconds, then why haven't you set this up yet?

-g

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:27:04PM -0500, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 20:15, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > Slightly similar topic, rather than wanting a repo I can access more
> > easily [I already manage one for work and one for a smaller community
> > [osjava.org]], I'd like to see the nightly builds of Jakarta Commons be
> > deployed as SNAPSHOTs to the Maven/iBiblio repository.
> 
> Again, that could be fine in 10 seconds with a directory here somewhere,
> then just build to that and change the commons project.properties files
> accordingly to poke the apache repo first. Some could probably even port
> the perl stuff for mirror finding to Java and we could incorporate that.
> 
> > Hen
> > 
> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, __matthewHawthorne wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm using Maven, but I frequently run into situations where a version of
> > > a jar I need isn't on ibiblio.  For example, yesterday at work I needed
> > > the postgres 7.4 jdbc driver, and also the new xdoclet 1.2, neither of
> > > which are there yet.
> > >
> > > For just a single developer, it's as easy as copying the jar to my local
> > > repository.  However, in a multi-developer, multi-site situation, it
> > > becomes a bit harder.  I don't want to have to manually provide these
> > > jars to my fellow developers.  For these newer jars, I'm thinking of
> > > checking them into our version control system and using Maven's jar
> > > override feature until they are uploaded onto ibiblio.
> > >
> > > Now, I've already filed requests for these files in the maven-upload
> > > category in Jira as the Maven guys have suggested.  However, this
> > > process seems to take some time.
> > >
> > > My idea is to create a developer repository somewhere on an
> > > apache/jakarta machine, that any committer can write to.  You could put
> > > a jar there, specify this url as a secondary repository, and be able to
> > > work until the jar gets put on ibiblio.
> > >
> > > It's just a quick idea that I thought of, that may make things easier.
> > > If I need a newer version of [betwixt] or [sql] or some other unreleased
> > > component, I can build it myself and put it in this developer repository.
> > >
> > > I'm already doing something like this in my public_html directory, but
> > > I thought that maybe some other developers would like to do the same
> > > thing.   Think about it: after a commons component is released, how long
> > > does it take to get up on ibiblio?  In my opinion, it should be
> > > available in a remote repository, somewhere, as soon as it is released.
> > >   For example, [primitives] and [dbutils] still aren't there, and were
> > > released over a month ago.
> > >
> > > What do you think?  Is this a good idea or would it just create more
> > > headaches?

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