On Wednesday 26 March 2008 07:37, Stuart McCulloch wrote: > FYI, when we start pushing this pom.xml to central it shouldn't > contain any <repositories> or <pluginRepositories> because > it's recommended that central poms don't refer to other repos.
Not "recommended", but required according to the guidelines from Maven. > The usual practice is to put all repository information in your > settings.xml (you can use profiles to switch between settings) > so that the actual project remains clean and portable. No, if we need repository information for an external dependency that is not in the central repository, then we have a problem and should fix the problem instead of making it harder for the users. As long as the licensing allows downloading deps, we should make the needed dependencies available on central repo. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
