I am also bothered by this proposal as Maven Central is in my view 
overly restrictive.

- What about the data-only schema jars used for app-schema testing that 
are generated by downloading schemas with ant? These exist only to allow 
caching of test data so tests can (once the artifacts are in the local 
repository) run offline without relying on network resources.

- What about the refdataset jar for GeoServer app-schema database 
testing (not even under version control let alone a proper pom)? I would 
love to see an scm link that points back to a maven repo.  :->

I do not think these are a good fit with Maven Central's world view. Not 
to mention having somewhere to deploy an unofficial handcrafted 
milestone when we have a killer problem with a dependency and are 
getting no joy with upstream? Or the time we had no GWC release and made 
a handcrafted milestone to release against. The osgeo repo allows us to 
adopt these pragmatic workarounds.

The osgeo maven repository is in my view an workable solution for these 
cases. Can osgeo put a varnishd in front of apache and be done with it?

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 18/03/15 08:37, Andrea Aime wrote:
> One thing that bothers me to the point I'd -1 this proposal is requesting
> people to manually install some jars in order
> to get a GeoTools build working... it's hard enough now without having to
> also add some ex

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz>
New Zealand

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