> I am not sure I understand the reluctance to test that POMs are well-formed. > A POM that is not well-formed is worthy of a note at least.
I just wouldn't want a not-well-formed pom (which Maven says is ok for its purposes) to prevent someone from being able to use a given artifact as a dependency. I agree that a well-formed test is reasonable for pom files but would want it to give a WARNING not an ERROR. > It should be possible to recognize the HTML returned by the "big-three" > repos in the case of an error and display the HTML body or part of it in the > error message. Which are the "big three"? ;-) > Perhaps a standard could be agreed upon by the "big-three" to make it easier > for Maven to detect the fact that an error message has been returned and > have all three put out similar messages. I prefer webserver error messages to return the proper http status code as they should (*not* http 200), then we wouldn't even have this discussion. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
