On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:06:04AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Dear all, > > would it be reasonable to transform the /usr/share/java directory into > something that may also function as an internal Maven repository? > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html > > It would allow us to store multiple versions of a jar on the same machine and > at the same time and thus avoid redundant downloads when compiling/starting > software. > > The ambiguity for which jar's version to take when there is no version > specified could be organised by something analogous to Debian's alternative > system.
I think using /usr/share/java directly as a maven repo would bring us into a big mess. We should use something like /usr/share/maven/repo and write a policy how to make all java libraries provide entries for the repo (where to put the pom.xml and jar, put a link into the repo that points to /usr/share/java/some.jar, etc.). Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
