Alex Karasulu wrote:
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[Karasulu, Alex]Does it not make sense to have a single maven style repository? This could provide access to versioned resources and keep them all in one place. Separate user repositories for each application seems like it might encourage or require duplication of common resources.
Are there any implications for a security model?.
Your right the whole purpose for a repository is for keeping things in one place. However keep in mind that this so called application repository is really a artifact cache for the application and not a REPOSITORY REPOSITORY like ibiblio etc where you snarf down dependencies. The application repository is the local disk cache of all the dependencies pulled down from the remote repo.
But your question still holds does it make sense to "allow" multiple artifact cache' one per application. I don't really know the answer to this right now because I have not encountered the use cases. The safest approach I think is to allow for it and leave it up to the user to decide and configure. What do you think?
By default we are enabling a single application repository ${merlin.home}/repository. We have provided and will continue to maintain the option for a user to override the default by declaring the location of an alternative application repository for a particular kernel instance. There is nothing suggesting any policy that would result in a 1-to-1 mapping between kernel instance and application repository (and I don't think such a policy would be interesting or desirable).
All we want at the end of the day is:
1 it works out the box 2. you can configure it to do different things if you want
At the end of the day this means that Merlin is providing a default application repository but should you need something different, then the option exists to deploy using a different repository to suite a different application requirement (e.g. system deployment verus system testing).
Cheers, Steve.
Alex
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