Tim O'Brien wrote:
What about having an XML description of the contents of a repository?
Such a description could serve multiple purposes, it could be used to enumerate known mirrors, it could be used to segment the "namespace" - say we reach some agreement with Sun and all sun artifacts fall into a namespace of sun-* and must be redirected to a Sun server, etc. This XML file could be used by tools that want to provide a list of every possible artifact.
What if every Maven repository knew of every other Maven repository
because they all shared a common resolution.xml file (think /etc/hosts
before the existence of DNS - hackish but it worked).
This is something that is already present in the JJar[1] project.
Wouldn't it suffice to just tell the system in what repository to look for to get a certain artifact?
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jjar/
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