Hi Joe, thanks for the insight :-)
can you give one project which has done this?, just to have a look at it and have this done the right way from the beggining. Are there any special requirements for these jars in order to be able to distribute them from mirrors (i.e.: being signed with a key corresponding to the Apache web of trust or something like that?) br, juan pablo On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Many projects in a similar situation ship a "deps" > package that contains dependencies and distribute > those from the mirrors. > > HTH > > > > > > >________________________________ > > From: Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez <juanpa...@apache.org> > >To: general@incubator.apache.org > >Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 2:42 PM > >Subject: downloading external dependencies outside of svn.apache.org > > > >Hello, > > > >As a part of JSPWiki's July 2012 incubator report [#1], it was noted that > >JSPWiki (incubating) should not ship external jars alongside with code. > >This has been achieved in current trunk. However, as part of AOO community > >graduation vote thread [#2] it was noted that: > > > >" If you try to build from source the build system will download packages > >from svn.apache.org instead of from elsewhere or the mirrors. That > >violates infra policy." > > > >Which is exactly what is happening to us: we download jars from Central as > >much as possible but, as there are a few of them ([#3], [#4]) which are > not > >published in Central, we download them from svn.apache.org. These jar are > >all AL compatible so, the questions are: > > > >- where can we place them in order to not violate infra policy? > >- could this be a -1 towards voting a release? how to proceed? > > > > > >thx & regards, > >juan pablo > > > >[#1] http://s.apache.org/zsq > >[#2] http://s.apache.org/8Gk > >[#3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/lib/ > >[#4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/tests/lib/ > > > > > > >
