>From someone who is currently moving from Ant build scripts to Maven2, having the jars and dependencies in ibiblio would be a better solution.
Valdis > I'll (strongly) second these sentiments. > > --Chuck > > ________________________________ > > From: Mark Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Maven Repository available > > > Thanks for doing this. It is a huge step in the right direction. I only > wish you hadn't decided to create your own release repository, and > instead would use the maven central repository. Perhaps you may consider > this for the next level of making things easy for your users. > > In my project, I have many dependencies. If each project set up their > own repository, I would have a huge repository section in my pom and > each repository would have to be checked for each artifact. Moreover, > there are many mirrors of the central repository so there isn't a single > point of failure for retrieving an artifact, whereas it is unlikely that > each individual project will be able to provide mirroring, and even if > they did, I would have to manage referencing all those mirrors. > > I know many projects have set up an automatic syncing with with the > central repository, so that they don't have to do any extra work (after > the syncing is set up) to publish releases to the central repo. > > Again, I am most appreciative of what you have done. I just hope it is > not a part of a trend for everyone to set up their own release > repositories (and yes, restlet is not the only one but thankfully they > are still few in number). > > -- Mark R > > > On 5/3/07, Thierry Boileau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > **Hello all, > > One the most frequent enhancement request that we received was > to > improve our support for Apache Maven <maven.apache.org> > technology. We > initially responded by shipping some Maven POM files within our > Restlet > distribution. This enabled users to upload those JAR files to a > local > Maven repository, using a script like the one available in our > Wiki. > > But, this was clearly not easy enough and forced users to > download the > full distribution for each new version released, instead of just > updating a couple of JARs. We also had issues with some > third-party > dependencies which aren't available in public Maven > repositories, like > the db4o, AsyncWeb or Simple. > > We listened to your feed-back and decided to launch dedicated > Maven > repository. It is freely accessible from > http://maven.restlet.org and > contains all Restlet JARs and third party dependencies that > aren't > available in the main public Maven repository. It will be > automatically > refreshed on the 1st and on the 15th of each month. > > Best regards, > Thierry Boileau > >
