This would be brilliant. Make it happen! Gj
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On sobota 24. září 2016 12:17:21 CEST, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > Certain services like the plugins hosting will rely on Legal giving the > > go-ahead for it, otherwise we'll have to find other people willing to > > host this. > > Hi. > One idea that keeps puzzling in my mind is to reuse central Maven > repository > more than we used to. If I understand correctly while the Maven central is > operated by Sonatype, it is just "leased" to them and still oversight by > Apache. As such the Maven central could be a natural place to upload > NetBeans > related binaries. > > NetBeans already knows how to produce Maven artifacts and there is a > NetBeans > Maven repository: http://bits.netbeans.org/nexus/content/groups/netbeans/ > > In addition to that we could modify the http://plugins.netbeans.org to be > just > a catalog over bits available in Maven central. > > There are also the [3rd party binaries used during NetBeans build](http:// > hg.netbeans.org/binaries/) - most of them available from Maven central. I > already [created a patch](http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/rev/3178d0a561c8) > to > allow such download and it seems to work. > > Would downloading bits from Maven repository address the legal and > infrastructure issues? > > It might, right? Legal issues of hosting bits at maven.org are probably > well > understood. The storage capacity is high. Download is instant. Maven > repository is the natural storage for Apache projects. If my observations > are > true, let's start of modifying NetBeans to use Maven central more. > > Jaroslav Tulach > NetBeans Platform Architect > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > <javascript:;> > >
