jira-importer commented on issue #507: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-indexer/issues/507#issuecomment-2965146316
**[Martin Todorov](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=carlspring)** commented [Aaron Simmons](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=paleozogt), The problem is more due to the the following: * One POM file can define one artifact. (Sure, you can use the build-helper-maven-plugin to add additional ones, but they are never reflected in the uploaded POM file). * You can't always guess the extension properly. You can guess simple extensions like jar, war, zip, but will fail with parsing the extensions for tar.gz, tar.bz2 and so on, unless you have an exact list of all possible extensions... So, if you were to scan a directory that contains such artifacts, how would you locate the artifacts? How would you figure out what the extension is? How would you know where the classifier ends when you have a complex extension like the above? You will end up getting classifiers like gcc4.4.5.tar. Clearly, this is not what you'd want. If you have suggestions and advice, do share! -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
