Hi, I suggest you to take a look to maven-proxy http://maven-proxy.codehaus.org or repoweb http://repoweb.sourceforge.net/ to write a layer between maven and your propietary repo, Intercepting maven requests and translating them to your layout.
Regards Carlos Sanchez A Coru�a, Spain http://www.jroller.com/page/carlossg/Weblog Oness Project http://oness.sourceforge.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Didier Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:26 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Local Repository layout? > > Hi Jason, > > Thanks for your quick answer. > I understand your point of view, and fully agree with. > > However I live in situation where I cannot change anything in > the current layout (which is great however, here, to have > something that actually exists!) [You know,... the legacy > stuffs, that where there even before Java was born :-)] > > Furthermore, the existing layout is not bad at all, so I have > no agrument to bring thousands of developpers to follow the > Maven directives. > > On the other side I would like to use Maven as I used it in > former project (when I was able to decide the project layout > and structure). I am missing all those Maven reports, > dependency consistency,... and more,.... > I know I can override some properties on the > project.properties file, but it seems to me a little bit > tedious, and certainly not the "correct way" to use Maven. > (Am I wrong?) > > And I am pretty sure I am not the only one here that cannot > use Maven, just because something alredy exists in their > context. (votes...?) > > So may be can I develop a plugin or something to do the > sutff? Any idea? > direction to see (I've never created any Maven plugin),..... > Other suggestion? > Again, I would'nt like to modify the Maven code, even if I > have a precise idea of what to do. > > Every remarks would be welcome! > > Regards, > Didier > > > Jason van Zyl wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:22, Didier Dubois wrote: > > > > > >>Dear All, > >> > >>I would like to use Maven in our current context. > >>We already have a local repository with a consistent layout. > >> > >>Is there a way to override the local repository layout > instead of having: > >> > >> > > > >Currently in the maven 1.x codebase no, there isn't. When > more of the > >2.x code is integrated into the 1.x codebase this will > technically be > >possible but it is really a matter of policy. I don't think it is > >something that would really be encouraged. That said it won't be > >anytime soon that those portions of 2.x will be backported to 1.x so > >you're on your own. > > > > > > > >>$repository_root/<packageId>/jars/<packageId>-<version>.<art > ifact_type> ? > >> > >>Any idea (except modifying some Maven classes and use a > "home brewed" > >>maven version....) > >> > >>Thanks in advance! > >> > >>Regards > >>Didier > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
