Yep, Dave, +1... Cheers, Chris
On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:14 PM, David Kale wrote: > I think it's fair to say that this is part of the maven building experience, > for better or for worse. Maven is automatically downloading a variety of > dependencies from a variety of locations, and sometimes the mirrors from > which it is downloading are less than responsive. I suppose if I had my > way, maven would do a better job of gracefully handling unresponsive or slow > mirrors -- and of communicating what is going on to the user. > > Whenever I get annoyed at it, I remind myself that the alternative would be > to download the dependencies manually, which would also be pretty annoying. > > On a philosophical note, I do wonder if systems like maven encourage > excessive dependencies and reliance on external libraries. For large > projects like OODT, you watch literally tens or hundreds of dependencies go > by and unless you're extremely curious and meticulous, you probably never > bother to see what they are, what they do, etc. > > Dave > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Hwang, Victor (388G) < > victor.hw...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > >> Just wanted to chime in - I also have that freezing problem as well, though >> it shows up very inconsistently. >> >> As for hsqldb, here's a tar of my version which built for me (1.8.0.7) >> >> Victor >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
