I've noticed this in another email:

Do note that Eclipse doesn't really use Maven Central but
> https://repo.eclipse.org/content/groups/releases/
>


Take a look there too.


I guess if this repo is the canonical source for those JARs we should use
it.

We have the hash to make sure it's the right binary.

#maven-repository: eclipse
> Is this a good idea?


If the ant task is updated to use this, why not?

 How would it affect to the cached binaries?


These are in .hgexternalcache anyhow...  I doubt we'll have conflicts (same
hash, no?).

 Should I downgrade binaries to previous versions and leave this for a
> future enhancement?


No, don't downgrade binaries. We are not beholden to Maven Central.



--emi

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Antonio <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> Modules "o.eclipse.core.**" contain binaries that are either hard or
> impossible to find in Maven central. Some times the versions are not
> exactly equal, and I'm not sure if we should downgrade to a previous
> version or upgrade to a newest one. We're talking of old binaries
> (2012/2013 in certain cases) that are possibly gone forever.
>
> Would it be possible to fetch these binaries from the
> https://repo.eclipse.org/ maven repository instead? I think this has many
> more versions that maven.central. (Don't know if this is the official
> Eclipse maven repo, though).
>
> We could add some sort of key in external/binaries-list in order to select
> a Maven repository. In order not to interfere with the existing contents we
> could use a comment-tag to specify the repository. Something like:
>
> #maven-repository: eclipse
>
> Is this a good idea? How would it affect to the cached binaries? Should I
> downgrade binaries to previous versions and leave this for a future
> enhancement?
>
> Thanks,
> Antonio
>

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