Nick Kew wrote:
You know, the stuff that comes off the build machines, like JARs and WARs and propery files and all that Java cruft. *rofl*Google doesn't seem to know what that means, either: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22apr+artifacts%22 Just one mention of the term (in a computing context) before Alan's post.
"Artifacts" is maven speak for the final objects that are created at the end of a build, which in the early days started off as binaries, but now can mean jars, javadocs, websites, poms, libraries, anything bundled together, given a version number and formally released.
Publishing APR binaries in a maven repository will help projects like tomcat that depend on APR for performance.
Because maven repos typically contain binaries, for it to be practical to deploy APR to a repo there would need to be some kind of sensible classifier format that describes the platform that APR would be built for. If that could be worked out, I don't see any reason why binaries could not be deployed.
Regards, Graham --
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