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...


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