Sounds cool. The downside to it is that it probably encourages lazy behaviour and that it could corrupt strickt usage of versioning.
Eelco ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Maven Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:04 PM Subject: Dependency Not Found - Possible Solution > Hello Maven Friends. > > I have been thinking about the problem of when a dependency can't be > found in the local or remote repo. Why can't we just make it so it asks > the user where it is on the file system? Then it copies it in. For a > newbie using Maven I don't like the idea of them having to copy it in, > with the right structure themselves. So maybe it could work like this: > > Attempting to download mail.jar form ibiblio.org > > mail.jar could not be found, if you would like to load it from your > local files system, enter it's path (Or hit enter to continue) > mail.jar location > (user enters file location here) > > Maven check it's there and then copies it into the local repo. > > Just an idea. Let me know what you all think. > > -James > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
