On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:28 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > It does seem reasonable for Maven to remember when it tried to download, > successfully contacted all known remote repositories, but found no pom. > In this case it could skip later attempts. Of course that assumes that > no-one uploads a pom later, but that's not too likely to happen. So how > could maven "remember" not to download more poms? Well, possibly by > creating the pom.xml file itself...
I chatted with John Casey online about this, and we basically came to the same conclusion. > I think a nicer solution, though, would be a plugin, > "maven-pomgenerator-plugin". If a user is sick of seeing failed pom > access attempts, they could just run: > maven pomgenerator:generate-all > which would cause the plugin to walk the repository tree and generate a > "brain-dead" pom for every jar that doesn't have one. Nice idea, thanks for the suggestion. Gotta noodle on this... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
