anyone can certainly write maven scripts to update/insert to either local/remote repositories
updating $PATH env vars in either .profile in home/username and or update .bashrc in home/username is straightforward updating the windows registry is a swamp filled with hungry alligators and I haven't seen a maven-plugin to update windows registry..(yet) If you can provide specifics on : 1)where you want to promote your distros as well as 2)which config files will be updated with the new folder names we would be able to respond with a more directed solution HTH Martin > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:46:15 +0200 > Subject: Re: Can mvn install packages globally (e.g. command line tools like > nutch)? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Maven is more a build tool than a package manager (though "maven > repositories" might look so). > > If you could clarify what you expect, then maybe we can tell you better if > maven could fit in some way. > > HTH. > > -- Baptiste > Le 15 août 2013 17:52, "Andrew Pennebaker" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > I'd like to install some Java command line tools, without having to > > configure PATH manually. Can mvn do this? Package managers from other > > programming languages often offer this ability, like RubyGems and NPM. > > > > If not, is it conventional to deploy Java command line tools through > > apt-get, brew, chocolatey, etc.? > >
