On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:43, "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Gary Gregory wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jörg Schaible [mailto:joerg.schai...@scalaris.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:21 >>> To: dev@commons.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: [codec] Large test data set! >>> >>> Hi Julius, >>> >>> Julius Davies wrote: >>> >>>>>> However, it will probably do no harm to ask at legal@. >>>>> >>>>> Do we actually have to distribute it? Maybe we can add is as zip to >>>>> the Maven repo and use the dependency plugin to download and extract >>>>> it on the fly. >>>>> >>>>> - Jörg >>>> >>>> >>>> Another option: ask the copyright holder to relicense to us under >>>> the ASL 2.0. That often works! >>> >>> Why do you want to include it into our Subversion? If it's downloade >>> automatically for the test like any other dependency, what's wrong with >>> it? >> >> It's not in a Maven repository, it's in a Zip file on SourceForge. > > ... and it is a defined process to put something into central. Yes that's true and a good point. But how do you read a data file from java that works from the build and any IDE. That code would need to be able to resolve the right location in the local M2 repo. This must have happened before. Maybe there is a way to add the right dir to the classpath and get the file as a resource through a class loader. Gary > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
