Re: [sunxacml-devl] public maven repository containing sunxacml-2.0-M1

[Kaleb P. <kal...@gm...>]

On Friday, August 06, 2010 12:15:59 pm Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> On 08/06/2010 03:07 PM, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> > On Friday, July 30, 2010 11:47:31 am Lennart Jütte wrote:
> >    
> >>> The big change was on how to reference the m2 repo in other projects as
> >>> you posted below. Thanks very much!
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> But Kaleb is right: a project shouldn't reference a mirror directly. Maybe there's a better solution?
> >>      
> > Just a couple of days ago I stumbled across a project that was using svn to host their maven repository. They just created a "mavenrepo" directory along side branches and trunk.  Although it seems a bit strange, it is functional.
> >
> >    
> 
> That would be much worse than referencing a mirror IMHO.

I don't think it's a good solution either, I just referenced it as an additional option since I hadn't seen anybody reference my original suggestion of using SF's web hosting.

> I think we 
> could simply use a variable with a default value referencing one mirror 
> and anyone can override it to use as a different mirror.

I'm coming from the point of view of typical developer who only needs a binary.  That developer likely already has a pom to which he just needs to add a dependency (and maybe a repository). In that case, providing a pom with a variable doesn't really help

Is there a reason not to use SF's web hosting to host the maven repository? Using their web hosting you can manage all the uploads with ssh/scp using ssh keys and it acts as a standard web server, which is all that maven needs.

--Kaleb