It is related to that Sonatype is tired of Maven being blamed when third-party repository fails, and causing builds to break.
What Sonatype refuses to acknowledge is that the centralized model doesn't work, since so much stuff that people like us depend on is not, and will not be, available o repo1.maven.org. Many, many years ago (pre-2005) I suggested to leverage Google search engine (et al) to locate the needed artifacts, allowing multiple locations of those artifacts independent of a centralized solution, to no prevail. I don't know if Qi4j (other than core) will have a chance of being disted on repo1.maven.org any time soon, dur to all our dependencies not being there. Cheers On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Rickard Öberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul! > > Thanks for doing the research on this one. > > On 2010-11-01 17.58, Paul Merlin wrote: >> >> This makes quite clear that we cannot go central easily. I wonder >> what we could do about it. OPS4J repository is currently mirrored to >> oss.s.o so maybe someone here know what to do for the qi4j case.. >> >> For reference, here are the two options oss.sonatype.org offers: - >> ask for mirroring the existing repository to central (simpler) - use >> oss.sonatype.org and get release staging for free (no more repo >> work) The two options are described here: >> >> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Sonatype+OSS+Maven+Repository+Usage+Guide >> >> Getting the Qi4j artifacts on maven central can ease their use, ease >> projects using Qi4j and by so ease adoption. > > This is a bit beyond my own grasp, so I don't really have an opinion on what > would be the best option. > > But what is the real issue? Since our POM's reference the repositories I > don't quite understand why it's so important that the others are also > centralized. Why is that? > > /Rickard > > _______________________________________________ > qi4j-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
