On Monday 04 September 2006 17:38, you wrote: > 1. The OBR is a federation, anybody can set up repos and any repo can > link to any number of other repos.
Yeah, I figured that part by now... > 2. I like being able to restrict the scope of a search to "trusted" > parties. That is IMHO a 'client' issue, and the reason why I want the public key in the index (to search for those I trust) and that bundles are signed with the corresponding private key. > 3. Google has a significant delay before it discover resources, unless > you would be able to get them cooperate I don't think that would be out of the question, if it was for Java at large. Also, isn't the delay related to whether you "help" them on the way?? News seems to be out much faster than my almost non-linked pages. > 4. I think Jeff McAffer raised a similar idea when we discussed OBR > in the beginning. Cool, we can form an Alliance ;o) > 5. I think the OSGi is furthest ahead in metadata, which will make it > easier for things to work correctly. Notice that maven is not very > string in its dependency model. Yes, I agree about that. I just mentioned Maven repositories could be easily "upgraded" to a minimum level with little or no effort, even without Maven folks co-operating. Cheers Niclas _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
