Re: maven-style repository for avalon stuff?

[Leo Simons]

Greg Stein wrote:

In article <b30m7c$ofl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Leo Simons"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...
so would it make sense to have http://avalon.apache.org/repository
contain the avalon jars & dists? It is probably easy as hell for the
maven peeps to do a

    ssh daedalus.apache.org
    cd /www/avalon.apache.org/repository
    scp -r * wherever_it_goes_on_ibiblio

on request, so that ibiblio can remain the primary point of
distribution.

Please note that the Board wants to see ASF-operated hardware as the
only, definitive point of distribution. Other sites are free to
*re*distribute, but the primary point should be from an ASF box.

acked. Any kind of avalon-hosted maven repository would in fact be a secondary point distribution of stuff @ www.apache.org/dist, and ibiblio would be a ternary distribution point.

All this just temporarily until the infrastructure peeps
and the peeps looking at a common repository hammer out something more
solid.

Maybe this statement is that you see ibibilio as temporary?

ibiblio temporary? Nah....they're running strong as far as I know :D

Not sure how
to read it, but non-ASF-box distribution should be considered a bug to fix
asap, rather than a temporary solution.

note all ASF-created binaries distributed from www.ibiblio.org/maven/ are indeed available from an apache box as well. The ibiblio repository is merely redistribution (in a slightly different form).

Here's the usecase: it makes a lot of sense to have a central location where java jars are provided in a machine-readable/findable fashion so that tools like maven and centipede can find them and do auto-install. Like with apt, rpm, CPAN, etc etc.

My statement was an acknowledgement of this usecase and a suggestion for a braindead setup to accommodate it. The "temporary" nature is in that I hope that the ASF distribution setup will change to accomodate this usecase in a more solid way (I know I know...do it yourself....)

The ASF shouldn't participate or
condone actions or policies which (potentially) violate software
licenses.

+1, but that's not what I was talking about at all.

cheers!

- Leo



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