On 28 Jun 07, at 1:33 PM 28 Jun 07, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
Le jeudi 28 juin 2007, John Casey a écrit :
On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
2. MANTTASKS-65: central is not automatically added any more if a
remoteRepository is set: the code has been changed to work as the
documentation said
This seems inconsistent with the way Maven as a whole works.
Are you saying that the central repository is not used if you specify
an alternative repository in your build.xml?
Yes, exactly
The super/root POM in a
normal Maven build ensures that the central repository is always
used, unless it's mirrored to a different location in the
settings.xml. It may not be the first repository checked, but it's
always there.
I don't think this is bad in Ant where there is little magic and
things are entirely procedural. I think having to specify anything
used is more natural to people who use Ant.
What's the reasoning behind making this work differently, rather than
just fixing the documentation?
good question.
I remember having asked whether I should fix the code or the
documentation,
and was replied to fix the code. But I can't find any more a
reference of
where I asked, and who replied, and why I was confident in this
reply...
Today I'd choose the other solution: fix the doc (and since then, I
added to
the tasks' doc explainations about mirrorOf).
Should we stop the release and have a vote on this?
I don't think so. I think the explicit specification is a good thing
when using Ant myself.
Hervé
Aside from this, I'm +1.
-john
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