Great news Donald!
I guess the idea to make this new repository branch to act as a geronimo
specific maven repository that can be relied on and pointed to in
geronimo project pom:s !?!
This would (among other things) cut down the steps (and build
instructions) needed for building special purpose assembles and plugins
as you would no longer need to check out the vXXX gernonimo artifact
subdir and manually do a mvn install into your local repos before you
can scratch build your project.
Simplicity is king!
thanks
peter petersson
Donald Woods wrote:
We have danced around the problem of not being able to build Samples,
Plugins or GEP from a clean m2 repo without building the Server's
repository subdir for long enough. I believe it is time to create the
following location in SVN -
geronimo/repo
Which would hold our private patched artifacts of other projects (like
Tomcat, Pluto, ...), just like the OpenEJB team has done for some of
their private depends.
I don't see this as a major hit to the svn infrastructure, given the
jars (10 for 2.2.) will only be downloaded when starting with a clean
m2 repo or when we publish any updated depends.
Unless someone comes up with a better solution by Friday morning, I'll
create the new repo branch and populate it with the latest 2.1.2 and
2.2 patched artifacts tomorrow.
-Donald
