On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:18, Stephen McConnell wrote: > Jason van Zyl wrote:
> >I have challenged you to give me a scenerio that I can't satisfy with > >something like the current Maven repository. Instead you drone on ad > >nauseum about the theoretical. Let's have a concrete example. > > > > Jason: > > Look around you - take a look at things you involved with. I've already > provided you with examples where the simplistic http over a maven style > file system layout breaks. Which one's were those so we can record them here? > You have already provided me with the > details of workarounds that the Maven platform incorporates to address > these inefficiencies. There is a bigger picture. That picture is based > on the collection of the requirements from repository-enabled > applications - a set of requirements that you seem determined to reject. It's a set of requirements I embrace. I too wish to write applications that use a repository but I don't believe it's any more complicated that a file-based repository accessible via http. I have yet to see a concrete example from you that shows otherwise. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
