You know, in the old days when you just released a .tar.gz it was perfectly acceptable to have a lib/ folder in the archive with your dependencies.
Because there was no Maven Central or whatever and doing wget from 10 different FTP server for all the dependencies was seen as inconvenient. Since Apache does provide "convenience" binaries, ie. it does serve dependencies, how is it suddenly strange to have a place to store only the dependencies? In these modern times what we actually need is Git LFS and store those libraries there https://git-lfs.github.com --emi >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: Do we want multiple download servers >Local Time: November 1, 2017 4:01 PM >UTC Time: November 1, 2017 2:01 PM >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] > >On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Emilian Bold [email protected] wrote: >>...is there any reason INFRA could not provide us a basic FTP account to >>carry on http://hg.netbeans.org/binaries under Apache?... >> >> It depends on the cost, and hosting third-party binaries that we do >> not control might be a problem. >> >> But maybe not - best is to write a concise problem description that we >> can discuss here and maybe forward to INFRA. >> >> -Bertrand >
