"tons of advantages" - please quantify this. Personally, I find the repository to be a "nice" piece of Maven. But, I don't see it as a cardinal sin to actually distribute libraries in your project. If you follow the libary naming convention then who cares?
Personally, what i find annoying are the copious additional, needless, and redundant dependencies that i have to download because of the dependencies defined in the pom of a jar that i need to download. I also find it annoying to have to manually install several small libraries to my local repo cuz i can't distribute them as a result of licensing. It is additionally annoying to have to setup a jar repository that will be used for jars that will be needed that can only be distributed privately. All of this... vs. me just referencing them in my source tree? I like Maven a lot and really enjoy the standard project layout features and plugins that are provided. But, the jar repository has caused me more time and less efficiency. However, i do like ibiblio for a single one stop shop for grabbing jars i need... to drop in my source tree ;-) I like it when people can check out my source from SVN and simply build. This is possible when i place them in SVN. Heck, I can even check Sun Jars into my SVN repo! ;) Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the direction of the system. I'll be using it. I'm always open to a compelling argument and a tap on the forehead that helps me to see the light. Many Thanks, Brandon On 4/24/06, Alexandre Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well you can use *system* dependencies but you loose tons of > advantages. Instead, maybe you should just populate your local > repository using the install plugin and -o to run mvn offline. > > On 4/24/06, Brandon Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it a requirement that i use the remote repository for jars? Is > > there a way to reference jars that are distributed with the code when > > checked out from the code repository? > > > > Brandon > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]
