I am working on a Clojure facade for Aether,[1] and would like to clarify some semantics. Though I'm working with Aether, I think this question is generally applicable for all Maven tools…but let me know if I should simply bounce to the Aether ML.
In short, I'd like to know what the functional differences are between the install and deploy operations, and whether the latter safely supersets the former. I know that 'install' is intended for local file-based repositories, and 'deploy' is for remote repositories using any of a half-dozen well-known transports. I can readily see that installs produce a slightly different set of files and metadata than deploying to the same local file repository; however, those differences do not seem to affect the resolution of dependencies in any way. I presume there must be some subtle ways in which 'install' must remain a distinct operation with its own semantics, but I've not discovered them (and I've not found any documentation which points the way, official or otherwise). Without knowing this, it seems like there's no reason for 'install' to exist at all, insofar as it seems you just use 'deploy' to push artifacts into a file-based repository and successfully use the results. Thanks, - Chas [1] https://github.com/cemerick/pomegranate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
