Hi there, If you read the "Better builds with maven" book you will see that you can easily set up your own mirror yourself (typically a mirror that is only used by you coworkers).
There are other options too (see book) Stefan "Alex Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev 28.07.2006 13:20:50: > I am with you. I tried building the test project, and it failed on a few > files from the central repository. Based on this post, I switched to a > mirror and got what I needed successfully. In my mind this bodes very ill > of this approach if the maven project can't keep it's central repository > servers online and available. > > Alex. > > On 7/28/06, Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
