I think I understood you; the URL for the id points to the jar's project -- for 
example to http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang.html for commons-lang whereas you 
want it to point to 
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/commons-lang/jars/commons-lang-1.0.jar.

What I'm saying is that it isn't guaranteed that Maven will have that information -- 
unless you forcibly delete your local repository before each site:generate.

Sri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 3:19 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: RE: idea: link to ibiblio on dependency page
> 
> 
> I don't think I worded my idea properly as you've not understood it. When
> I goto:
> 
> http://www.osjava.org/xmlwriter/dependencies.html
> 
> The JAR column should be a link to a repository where I can download said
> jar. Some are at ibiblio, some are at osjava. Currently the user has to
> click on the 'ID' column and go to the URL for the project.
> 
> Hen
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Sri Sankaran wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > It would be nice if the maven dependency page provided a link to the
> > > repository that the dependency is available from.
> > >
> > > When maven is running, it knows (or can know) the location it obtained
> the
> > > jar from, so would be able to encode this in the generated site.
> > >
> >
> > Not necessarily.  If a given jar file is available locally, Maven
> doesn't reference your maven.repo.remote settings at all.
> >
> > > This has some issues though, so it might be simpler to just provide a
> > > repository tag as a child to the dependency tag which uses ibiblio as
> the
> > > default.
> > >
> >
> > I like the current approach.  We use several jars that are not available
> on Ibiblio.  Encoding the repository to use for each jar would make
> writing the POM tedious.  Also, if we change repositories, currently, only
> one setting -- the maven.repo.remote -- has to be changed
> >
> > > This would benefit users a lot I think. Save them hunting through the
> > > sourceforge or apache mirror systems when ibiblio has the values [and
> is a
> > > mirror for both] anyway.
> > >
> >
> > Why are the users hunting for the jar files?  By users do you mean
> developers or end-users? Anyway, one just has to look at the designated
> remote repositories.
> >
> > Your needs can be satisfied if dependencies page presents the URLs to
> the repositories being used by the project -- a slight variation to your
> original suggestion.
> >
> > > Hen
> > >
> > >
> > Sri
> >
> >
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