I don't have any objections from that description. What are some examples of these jars?
-Alex On 8/22/14 6:05 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote: >And ... just to put a little more weight for my suggestion, > >I just found the one jar in maven-central that is least probable to be >used by a maven project :-) >http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/maven/maven-ant- >tasks/2.1.3/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.jar >(It's a lib to make Ant be able to deploy Maven artifacts) > >So I think people at Maven are putting things there in order for Ant >projects to be able to fetch them from there ... > >Chris >________________________________________ >Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> >Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 14:51 >An: [email protected] >Betreff: Using Maven dependencies instead of binary distributions? > >Hi, > > >I am currently trying to extend some of our build scripts with targets >that locally install built libs in a maven repo. Now I have to sort of >tell the targets which dependencies are used. I would really like to >simply reference libs publically available in Maven-Central but some of >the libs we are using are some strange patched versions. > > >Simply referencing jars in maven central would make it a lot easier to >download only what we need. I think it would be a lot more stable than >depending on the project sites of several projects being online. > >So instead of downloading a zip or tar.gz from a project site, unpacking >that and taking one or two jars from that and copying them to another >place, wouldn't it be a lot easier to simply fetch that from >maven-central? After all you can download the jars with the same tools >you download the binary packages. > > >Chris
