I think I've asked this before, but AFAIK, distributionSite and distributionDirectory are not related AT ALL to maven.repo.central.
-- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Michal Maczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/06/2003 06:44:19 PM: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Skopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:40 AM > > To: Maven Developers List > > Subject: Re: Deploy API (artifact plugin) > > > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:20, Michal Maczka wrote: > > > I have progressed with Deployer API. > > > > Wow, that *really* looks good... > > > > > #list of repositories to which we will deploy > > > maven.repo.repos= R1, R2, R3, R4, ibiblio > > > > Is there really need for this property? > > I am just afraid of users forgetting to add to this property which will > > raise question on the mailinglist.... > > > > Possible reaons from my point of view: > > > > a) convenience for Michal :-) > > He does not need to loop over all properties check for a maven.repo.* > > match... > > > > I think that looping over project properties is quite dangerous. > If you use project inheritance, sometimes you might be interested > in overriding some properties of parent project. > > In this case you cannot switch off any repository defined in parent project, > > And you should not be aware of them. > > But you are 100% right that it should be simpler. > That's why I asked for comments, hoping that somebody will have > an idea how to simplify. > > BTW: It's even more complicated then I have described last time. > > Silently I assume existence of default (central repository). > Some setting of this repository are matching > > </distributionDirectory> > </distributionSite> > > Tags in POM > > This repository is silently named "central". > > It's clear that in POM there is no place for some properties of this > repository (like username, password, passpharse of private key, proxy host > etc). > > Other settings used this repository are currently described in > (BTW: why they are there? It's very hard to find them!) > > http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/jar/properties.html > > Namely: > > maven.repo.central > maven.repo.central.directory > maven.username > maven.remote.group > > > I will try to hack my code to make it backward compatible ... but among > those settings you won't find e.g. user's password. I need to know it. > :( > > > > For the moment using my (poor!!) naming convention you can use: > > #(don't have to use it if tag </distributionSite> was used in POM > maven.repo.central=www.apache.org > > #(don't have to use it if tag </distributionSite> was used) > maven.repo.central.directory= > > > maven.repo.central.username > maven.repo.central.group > maven.repo.central.password > maven.repo.central.passphrase > maven.repo.central.privatekey > maven.repo.central.port > maven.repo.central.proxy.host > maven.repo.central.proxy.port > maven.repo.central.proxy.username > maven.repo.central.proxy.password > > I think that it is more consistent...but way too complicated. > > Michal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
