If you consider the identity of the artifact to be its SHA1, theoretically it doesn't matter where it comes from. This is not to say that's optimal to go looking everywhere for an artifact. How this is constrained in Nexus is through routing rules where Nexus knows only to look for given groupIds in a particular repository and this great optimizes lookup times. One might argue this type of logic can be moved back into Maven itself.
As we discussed in the hangout, and I agree with Igor, that mirrors were an error and likely something we should eliminate in Maven 4.0.0 and work on a repository manager protocol like we discussed. On Jul 4, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote: > In addition to our hangout session: isn't it weird that for a dependency > Maven can go over all the repositories, even though when an extra repository > is added to the pom.xml, the developer knows exactly which dependencies > should make use of that repository. > > To me it would make sense if you could add a reference to the repository per > dependency, like > > <dependency> > <groupId>com.acme</groupId> > <artifactId>specialtool</artifactId> > <version>1.0-alpha-1</version> > <repositoryId>acme-store</repositoryId> <!-- only look in this repo, I know > it's not in Central --> > </dependency> > > Robert > > Op Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:37:17 +0200 schreef Mark Derricutt <m...@talios.com>: > >> On 3 Jul 2014, at 6:25, Robert Scholte wrote: >> >>> This is probably more than enough for tomorrow. >> >> A discussion on a merits and flaws of <repositories> (when combined with >> mirrors) is also warranted after some previous discussion on the list. >> >> Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
