Serge Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/04/2004 08:43:48 PM: > 1. What happens if ibiblio suddenly becomes unavailable ? Shouldn't Maven > have a mirroring system the same way Debian repositories have ?
There are mirrors of ibiblio. Planet Mirror is one. SunSource is another from memory (not sure). > 2. A lot of companies use their own remote repository. What should be in > there, only what's not on ibiblio ? What about the failure case in question > 1 ? Whatever the companies require. We use the maven-proxy from CodeHaus to host our repos, that way if we don't have a jar, it'll go get it from our defined remote repos. > 3. Another advantage of a "personal" remote repository is the possibility > to instantly add JARs you require, since even despite the really good > efforts by Maven committers, it will take time, and sometimes you just want > things "right away". What is the best practice in such cases ? Local Repo -> Company Repos -> Optional Regional Mirrors -> ibiblio. > 4. For open source projects, such as the Apache developers, what are the > best practices to ensure *coherent* JAR dependencies ? Because here I have > of people that had either non-working SNAPSHOTs, or old ones, etc... Don't use SNAPSHOTs if you aren't prepared to break the build. > 5. Why are there so little plugins on ibiblio ? For example the Torque > plugin was removed from RC2 but isn't available on ibiblio. Is this normal ? Yes, plugins are often hosted elsewhere. e.g. the maven-plugins project has it's own plugins repo. HTH, -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
