On 28/08/2008, at 10:14 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
Is this referring to the index files that live in the central
repository [1] ?
I think if we're going to provide an official index, it should be one
that comes from the Maven project, not from any particular repository
manager.
It's integrated in m2e, Netbeans, IDEA, and a whole slew of open
source organizations so I'm not sure how much more of a defacto
standard in real life you're going to get.
But, I agree and I'm not at all suggesting the Nexus index is the
official index from Maven. I don't think we even need to say there
is an official index. Happy to move into another directory, and
anyone else can publish whatever indices they like. Let users choose
what they want to use.
Sorry, a bit late catching up on mail.
FWIW, if defining a standard for the index format and versioning, etc
within the Maven project itself came up here I'd think it was a good
idea. I'm also fine with allowing multiple types for now as you say.
As for what is on central now, as a repository maintainer, I don't
know how .index got there, how to clean up old versions, or how to
update it if it's out of date (which it seems to be). I presume if
asked by Maven users I should just tell them that the Maven team are
not responsible for it, go nag the Nexus lists.
And with regard to Archiva dev as James raised, I'm sure we can deal
with the question of what format, APIs, etc over on its dev list based
on what it needs, as it is not really relevant for here. We've had a
few m2e users request that so it's a good thing to do. It's hardly a
stretch to do either based on the similarities of the format and as
long as it's going to work across different versions as Milos pointed
out, and can be extensible, it should work for us.
Cheers,
Brett
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