In my opinion you'll get more relevant answers on the Aether ML. Vincent
2012/2/23 Chas Emerick <c...@cemerick.com> > As I said, I'm building a Clojure library on top of Aether, so the notions > of goals and lifecycles and plugins are nowhere to be found. > > By "'deploy' operation", I mean the operation implemented by e.g. > RepositorySystem.deploy in Aether, or the same operation implemented in the > maven-ant-tasks, or in whatever was the underpinning of Maven 2.x. > Likewise for "'install' operation". > > It seems odd to me that all of the responses so far have been referring to > userland concepts, rather than the semantics of the fundamental operations > implemented by those libraries/APIs... > > - Chas > > On Feb 23, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Thiessen, Todd (Todd) wrote: > > > Interesting thread, although I find it a big confusing. Are you using > the deploy goal, not lifecycle, to deploy artifacts to your local > repository? What do you mean by "'deploy' operation"? Are you actually > using the deploy plugin? > > > > Your comment about them not being documented well I also find a bit > confusing. The deploy and install plugins are both documented quite well. > But I don't think you are referring to the plugin. I think you mean > something else when you say "deploy operation". > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Chas Emerick [mailto:c...@cemerick.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:38 AM > >> To: Maven Developers List > >> Subject: Re: Functional distinction between install and deploy > >> operations > >> > >> > >> On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Chris Graham wrote: > >> > >>> Remember that 'deploy' still calls 'install'. > >> > >> Very true for `mvn`. Not true in Aether; this would seem to be a > >> userland tool convention, and not a fundamental characteristic of the > >> 'deploy' operation. > >> > >> However, even Aether leaves some resolver-status and metadata files in > >> the local repository after completing a 'deploy'...although I can't > >> determine the significance of them. > >> > >> One thing I've discovered is that an installed SNAPSHOT will always > >> take precedence over SNAPSHOTs from remote repositories, whereas this > >> is not the case for SNAPSHOTs that are deployed to a local repository. > >> So, there's one significant difference at least. > >> > >> It's unfortunate that the most fundamental things in Maven are > >> essentially undocumented AFAICT: what 'deploy' and 'install' do, the > >> various contents (and potential contents) of repositories in different > >> contexts and their semantics, and so on. > >> > >> - Chas > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
