Hey, the big question - are there alternatives? How well does git cope with binaries and are there experiences with big repositories?
The JNA project decided, that holding the released binaries in the git history would be a good idea. The library itself is a few megabytes, the repository currently takes nearly 500 MB. If netbeans begins to regularly update binaries I fear, that the repository grows into unhandleable sizes. What about this: Instead of maven coordinates full URLs are specified in binaries-list. As long as the hash is checked, this should still be secure. This way also sources for binaries, not backed by maven (eclipse) could be supported. If we ensure that only stable URLs are used (Maven, Eclipse, W3C) we would be save - or we establish a separate repository for the binaries, as Emilian suggested. For now I think I found most eclipse binaries on maven central, so we could focus on preparing a release for now. Greetings Matthias Am Mittwoch, den 01.11.2017, 10:29 +0100 schrieb Antonio: > Hi all, > > PROBLEM: > > The mylyn binaries are not available in Maven central. Nor in any > other > Maven repository. > > SOLUTION: > > We could use the eclipse downloads system, with automatic mirror > selection, with [1]. > > So, for instance, to download the jar file > org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core_3.17.0.v20150828-2026.jar for the > o.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core module we could use the url [2], and we > could > then use an appropriate SHA-1 to verify that the download is correct. > > All mylyn binaries are available there (maybe other binaries as > well). > > Currently the build system uses a single server > (nbbuild/default-properties.xml|binaries.server). But we could > specify > multiple download servers and try to download from them in order, > until > the download succeeds. > > QUESTIONS: > > Would it be a good idea to add support for multiple URLs into > "binaries.server"? Is it ok to download binaries from the > www.eclipse.org/downloads URL? Do you want me to submit a PR with > this? > > Thanks, > Antonio > > > [1] > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/mylyn/drops/3.17. > 0/v20150909-1855/plugins > > [2] > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/mylyn/drops/3.17. > 0/v20150909- > 1855/plugins/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core_3.17.0.v20150828-2026.jar
