On Jan 5, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
Thanks for your response Dain,
Dain Sundstrom wrote:On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Mark R. Diggory wrote:Please excuse the cross post. I'm planning to run some commands on the java-repository to remove interim builds and SNAPSHOTS. Specifically, I'll be running:If you remove SNAPSHOTS, it not only can it break head branches of projects,
Can you explain this further, I'm not sure what your suggesting here. Are you referring to content outside of /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository? Its important to point out that I'm only suggesting modification of content in the repository, not modification of any other content inside dist/...
it can break milestone "source" releases that people are stillusing. -dain
Well, the http://www.ibiblio.org/maven repository will still maintain all the SNAPSHOTS/interim builds I am planning on removing. That rsync does not delete files. So users of Maven working solely with the www.ibiblio.org/maven repository will not experience any of these changes.
If it is really the case that Maven users are going to dist/java-repository instead www.ibiblio.org/maven we should alert them, dist/java-repository is in practice just for publishing Apache jars to ibiblio (though we have visions of its usage for other goals in the near future).
For Apache developers using Maven, what I recommend is to continue using www.ibiblio.org to resolve dependencies for milestone and release builds. Then, to actually do any interim, snapshot or dated builds into
http://cvs.apache.org/repository
which is not mirrored.
I can say that I was not aware of the policy, so I would assume other are not. If there are any projects that were using that location as a maven repo, their builds will break. Also if someone shipped a source distribution that needs one of these files, it will break, which means there would be no way to reproduce a historical build from a source distribution.
-dain
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