+1 to NOT putting -bin and -src archives in Maven centtral. Sanjiva.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Andreas Veithen <[email protected] > wrote: > All, > > What is our point of view on the question below? > > Personally I think we should indeed avoid deploying the distributions > to Maven central. In a similar discussion on > [email protected], somebody pointed out that this can be > achieved quite easily by configuring the maven-deploy-plugin with the > skip option (for Axis2, this would mean changing this setting in the > distribution module). > > Andreas > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: sebb <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 18:15 > Subject: Including -bin and -src archives in Maven repos. > To: Apache Infrastructure <[email protected]> > > > Commons builds (mvn deploy) currently put both Maven jar files and > non-Maven zip and tar.gz archives into the Nexus staging repository. > > For example: > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-098/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.1/ > > If we don't delete the zips and tar.gz files, then the size of each > Commons release on the Maven repos will be at least tripled. > > There is also the risk that users may start downloading the non-Maven > archives from Maven repos rather than the mirrors. > > I think we should delete the non-Maven archives before using Nexus to > release the rest of the files to the Maven repo, but others on Commons > think we should release the whole lot as is. > > [Obviously we need to copy the non-Maven files to the appropriate > /dist/commons directories on people as well]. > > Please can we have some advice? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Director; Sahana Software Foundation; http://www.sahanafoundation.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/
