On 23 February 2012 19:42, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > 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.
Sounds like that is specific to the way OODT does its resolution. > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
