Hi Sebb, On Feb 23, 2012, at 12:13 PM, sebb wrote:
>> >> On the contrary, they are plenty useful to Maven. They are used by its >> assembly plugin to allow for transitive dependencies and the ability to >> unpackage those distros as needed. > > Huh? > Are you sure? Yep, I'm not an expert, but we push tar.gz and .zip distributions in OODT, and then we have specialized assembly.xml descriptors in downstream OODT components that depend on the tarballs, and Maven will go and get them remotely. Paul Ramirez knows a ton about this in OODT: I've mainly just been a watcher of his "Maven magic" :) But, I do know they are useful, at least to us in OODT, and wanted to mention it. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
