Hi, I'm new to maven, and I'm a bit reserved to trusting a few
centralized servers for something that's critical to a project.
Since any host that downloads a project (say, from SVN) and wants to
build it, needs to download a number of Maven packages, obviously
there's a heavy dependency on the central maven server.
Yesterday when I started trying out Maven, I spent maybe 20 minutes
waiting for the initial dependencies to be loaded from repo.maven.org
(at speeds of a few to a few thousand bytes/second), until I found
out how to use a mirror site. The problem: there are only a handful
of mirror sites, and should they disappear (for any reason, maybe the
company/organisation losing interest / moving to another build
system) or be as overloaded/slow as the central server, it'd be
impossible to setup a new host and work on the project.
I've read through the docs a bit and found out that you can set up
your own servers, but my question: is there a list of what packages/
dependencies the maven core uses, so that anybody who wants a 100%
reliable server can download anything that maven could ever need
(only the builtin modules, obviously; for everything else you manage
your own dependencies).
Is it a viable option to simply tar up the .m2 directory after a few
full project builds (so that hopefully all dependencies will have
been loaded).
This isn't a troll, I'm only genuinely afraid of trusting a few
centralized servers for a task that's needed for any new machine to
setup their system (especially after noticing last night, how slow a
server can be and what that means for getting to work). A big
tarball/package would certainly be easier to deploy for an organisation.
Best regards,
Ulrich
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