>-----Original Message----- >From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:14 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Request to re-open MNG-3472 > >Hi Brian > >if diskspace was a concern i would concur but as each repository and their >mirrors support terabyte capacity i would hold off on the purge >i was bitten by a wizbang version maven plugin that wasnt tested with >wizbank injector and failed when the maven-plugin's were injected using >incorrect role and roleHint
What in the world are you talking about? How can you claim that everyone's has the capability and the money to buy terabytes of disk space, especially for everyone's local repositories? >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:28:27 +0200 >> Subject: RE: Request to re-open MNG-3472 >> >> I'm not suggesting that Maven periodically run a task to purge the repo. >I'm suggesting that a settable policy be implemented such that a max number >of versions of a snapshot artifact be kept in the local repo. When that >limit is exceeded, the oldest version is deleted. >> >> Yes, it's easy enough to do an rm -rf on your local repo. But that >assumes that you understand why you need to do this or have been told by >your dev team to do this and that you remember to do it before you realize >that a lot of disk space is being used up by something. This is even more of a problem when you have dozens of people performing builds on a variety of shared machines. It seems like many people don't realize that not everyone limits their use of maven to personal PCs with huge disks. When you have several people working on the same system "oh, it's just a few GB" quickly ends up turning into "out of disk space". >> IMHO, a tool should never have unbounded access to resources such as disk >space. Further, I don't think stakeholders (not all of which are >developers) should need to understand the inner working of Maven or what >they need to do work around a limitation such as this. >> >> -brian I definitely agree with this. It's hard enough to get people to clean up the files that the explicitly create. eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
