Hi all, I know I’ve been raising lots of questions about binary dependencies lately. The fact is that I don’t feel comfortable having them stored in hg.netbeans.org/binaries knowing this is going away. I’d prefer having as a solid build system as we can get. I’d prefer not having to upgrade/downgrade versions because artifacts are not in Maven central.
Currently we have 10 o.eclipse.mylyn.* modules that depend on binaries that are not in Maven central, that’s why I’m searching alternatives to hg.netbeans.org/binaries. I’m glad to hear Emilian has an alternative repo. I know this is a problem of mine, worring about these things, so I apologize for being so tiresome asking questions all the time. I’ll focus on finishing the licensing stuff and leave the final solution to this for later. Anyway I’m glad there’s been some discussion on the matter. Cheers, Antonio > El 1 nov 2017, a las 14:27, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > escribió: > > If we cannot use Maven Central or some other "big" official repositories that > guarantee some integrity, then we might as well use our own setup. > > In the future http://hg.netbeans.org/binaries might be going away, but we > still have http://netbeans.osuosl.org/binaries/ which is under my control and > where we have a lot of bandwidth and enough space. Also see the article about > this https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/towards-building-netbeans-new-home > > So I suggest we don't make this overly complicated. Right now we can leave > some binaries as they are and keep using http://hg.netbeans.org/binaries > until it goes down. Later on we can switch to > http://netbeans.osuosl.org/binaries/ (and perhaps also add a new folder just > for new binaries, perhaps http://netbeans.osuosl.org/apache-binaries/ or > something). > > --emi > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Do we want multiple download servers >> Local Time: November 1, 2017 11:29 AM >> UTC Time: November 1, 2017 9:29 AM >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> 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
