On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:06 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From intuitive feeling I would say: there is a reference to a defined > repository in settings.xml, so Maven will find the missing attributes, but no > it does not, it does like this: ... > not very helpful this error message. It seems that I have to force my > developers to define the URL two times in their settings.xml: First in the > repositories/repository tag, second in the distributionManagement/repository > tag. Not very convenient.
I agree there should be a better error message and not a NPE. However the urls for repositories and distribution management are usually different-- file:// urls may be the only time they could be shared. For example, you may pull from a repository as http:// , but publish to it with dav:http:// or scp:// . Further, distributionManagement is often set once, up in an organization level pom, and repositories can go in a shared conf/settings.xml, neither of which developers need to maintain. HTH, -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
