> From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tim Anderson wrote: > > >I take the view that everything in the repository is an artifact. > >Tools can exclude the artifacts they don't need - there can't be any > >language agnostic support for this, without adding metadata. > > > > Tim: > > How do you address something like the following: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ant/jars/ant-1.5.jar > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ant/jars/ant-1.5.jar.md5 > > I don't see the md5 file as an artifact - instead I consider it to be > meta data about the jar artifact. >
The md5 file is an artifact. Its meta data for the jar, for those tools that understand it. -Tim PS - is anyone else having problems with this list? I never received my original response to this.
