On 21 Jun 2012, at 20:53, Eric Kolotyluk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have brought this notion up before, but I have been thinking about it a bit > more. > > Would it make sense to use Maven technology for software deployment and > installation as opposed to just builds? It definitely makes sense, and can be (and has been) done now without any modification to maven code or Apis. I designed a computation cluster for someone a few years ago that used a standard maven repo and part of the maven API to automatically resolve, download and install the nodes that ran the cluster. The client would say to the cluster, "dear cluster, please calculate this for me, using version x.y.z of model Z", and the cluster would download the code it needed where necessary. We no longer needed to upgrade or downgrade code, the cluster just did the right thing automatically. Regards, Graham -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
