Salut Manu, > > Sure that's what they do. But the "usual" location is different for > every library. If it can be standardized within the Maven infrastructure > that would greatly simplify the downstream packaging. Any library (from > Apache or elsewhere) could be downloaded in a buildable form directly > from the central Maven repository. >
There's only a slightly problem with that approach: the Maven central repo is not under the ASF control, while the old traditional dist area is, so I guess "official" releases _must_ be placed in the ASF space. my 2 cents, -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 28/03/2013 15:29, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : > >> Why? IMHO packagers should be using the "usual" distribution mirror >> system. > > Sure that's what they do. But the "usual" location is different for > every library. If it can be standardized within the Maven infrastructure > that would greatly simplify the downstream packaging. Any library (from > Apache or elsewhere) could be downloaded in a buildable form directly > from the central Maven repository. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
