Many projects like to keep various kinds of statistics. Sourceforge does some of that. A repository redirect doesn't sound much like complex functionality to me. It's just returning the location of a repository that contains the download. Seems simple to me but then again, I didn't write the code or do the design.
In my opinion, if it has this feature then it can become ubiquitous. A network of repostiories for people to put stuff downloadable for maven with a directory service in the middle. I haven't run any statistics but I suspect a whole bunch of the jars people use can't be gotten directly, even from ibiblio/repo1, because the owners won't hand over that last bit of control. Cheers, Steve Jason van Zyl-2 wrote: > > > On 9 Jun 07, at 8:58 PM 9 Jun 07, sharrissf wrote: > >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to post a redirect to >> ibiblio that >> would take someone to a different maven repository to find what >> they are >> looking for. Sort of making ibiblio both a repository and a directory >> service for finding the proper repository for software? > > Ibibilio is being phased out and for Maven 2.x Ibiblio isn't used > much at all. The most recent releases of Maven 1.x also don't use > Ibiblio. Everything goes to our central repository machine which is: > > http://repo1.maven.org > > That said the plan for that machine is that it always remain a simple > web-based repository, there will never be any sort of applications > running on it. > > What do you need as anything that is OSS in nature should be pushed > to the central repository. We're shooting to have the one intact > repository be mirrored all over the world. > > >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Redirects-in- >> ibiblio--tf3896255s177.html#a11045717 >> Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Redirects-in-ibiblio--tf3896255s177.html#a11049784 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
