Howdy,

This sounds plausible to me, but as Enrico said, may cause problems down
the pipe. All the plugins will be surprised. Would be a bit better with
hard links, but they are more limited...


Thanks
T


On Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 02:03 Tiago Bento <tiagobe...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Maven team,
>
> Is it possible to configure Maven to create symlinks instead of
> copying dependencies when "downloading" them from a repository with
> the `file://` protocol?
>
> Reason would be increasing performance and saving disk space.
>
> If there's not an out-of-the-box way to achieve this, any direction on
> how to do it with a custom plugin/extension/hack would be very much
> appreciated!
>
> Kind regards, and thanks in advance.
>
> Tiago Bento
>
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