----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:40 PM Subject: Re: ibiblio central repository
> 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. It's interesting to use maven-proxy for private company repos. If you want to create a public repo, it's preferrable to put in it only yours jars if you don't use a rsync with ibiblio. http://www.bluesunrise.com/maven used by the jetspeed project is an example of a bad repository. > > > 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. Some projects doesn't use the SNAPSHOT extension and put their files on a repo but this jars doesn't the a complete release(beta, rc, final). If you don't use the snapshot extension and you put a jar in a repo with another extension (for example -dev), the jar file will be download one times by users, and only one. If the jar file change, it will be never re-downloaded by maven because it's in local repo of users and it isn't a snapshot. > > > 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. The torque plugin can be put (snapshot and final version) in ibiblio directly by the torque team (it's the same for all apache projects) . Emmanuel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
