Even more than redefining what Central does, you're effectively describing a new, unofficial java class packaging and distribution mechanism. This seems like it will violate signatures etc and make tracking of what you actually have a nightmare.
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > this idea of putting everything in git is funny: not sure this will go very > far from this poc, but let's imagine... > > on classes branch, splitting the jar into individual .class has IMHO a big > drawback: we loose original jar and its signature > > On the other branches, the current poc shows commits for versions that are > perfectly linear: if there are multiple branches that are released in > parallel, the commit won't be so clean. I don't know if this will have an > impact on compression efficiency. > > Another issue with this idea: during development, with SNAPSHOTs, the git > repo > will be polluted: this idea IMHO could only be valid for releases > > not to speak about read concurrency when one requires to use multiple > versions > of a lib. And of course, write concurrency is even harder. > > > Definitely, the idea is funny, but I don't see how this could go very far > than > this funny idea (in addition to the complexity for implementing this > format in > tooling) > > Regards, > > Hervé > > Le lundi 15 mai 2017, 21:45:00 CEST Paul Hammant a écrit : > > One more repo: > > > > https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-all/ > > > > One branch for each of classes, javadoc, sources, and poms > > > > 15 javadoc original versions: 24.1M > > > > 16 sources original versions: 4.9M > > > > 27 classes original versions: 8.4M > > > > Afterwards git work the bare .git folder is: 8.4M > > > > *77.5% saving on storage* > > > > Any artifact, *including the poms,* can be pulled down via a single git > > command > > > > git clone https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-classes --depth 1 > --branch > > TAGNAME > > > > 74 TAGNAMEs: classes-0.1, classes-0.2, classes-0.3, classes-0.5, > > classes-0.6, classes-1.0, classes-1.0.1, classes-1.0.2, classes-1.1, > > classes-1.1.1, classes-1.1.2, classes-1.1.3, classes-1.2, classes-1.2.1, > > classes-1.2.2, classes-1.3, classes-1.3.1, classes-1.4, classes-1.4.1, > > classes-1.4.2, classes-1.4.3, classes-1.4.4, classes-1.4.5, > classes-1.4.6, > > classes-1.4.7, classes-1.4.8, classes-1.4.9, javadoc-1.2, javadoc-1.2.1, > > javadoc-1.2.2, javadoc-1.3, javadoc-1.3.1, javadoc-1.4, javadoc-1.4.1, > > javadoc-1.4.2, javadoc-1.4.3, javadoc-1.4.4, javadoc-1.4.5, > javadoc-1.4.6, > > javadoc-1.4.7, javadoc-1.4.8, javadoc-1.4.9, pom-1.2, pom-1.2.1, > pom-1.2.2, > > pom-1.3, pom-1.3.1, pom-1.4, pom-1.4.1, pom-1.4.2, pom-1.4.3, pom-1.4.4, > > pom-1.4.5, pom-1.4.6, pom-1.4.7, pom-1.4.8, pom-1.4.9, sources-1.1.3, > > sources-1.2, sources-1.2.1, sources-1.2.2, sources-1.3, sources-1.3.1, > > sources-1.4, sources-1.4.1, sources-1.4.2, sources-1.4.3, sources-1.4.4, > > sources-1.4.5, sources-1.4.6, sources-1.4.7, sources-1.4.8, sources-1.4.9 > > > > - Paul > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
