Noel J. Bergman wrote:
1.) they should be either symlinked in java-repository to the jars directory and your maven project-id.
That works.
2.) you should migrate your publishing of jar distributions to /java-repository/your-project-id.
Migrating publication of jar files to that exclusive location would make it more difficult for people who don't use maven to find what they want.
--- Noel
Such individuals are going for the tar/zip's anyways, are they not?
But if your using maven to resolve dependencies and publish with, then your jars are going to be ending up in repository.
If you look at Jakarta Commons for instance, all the jars are published to maven exclusively. And directories such as
/www/www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/* are devoted to tar/zip's.
so in the past where Jakarta-Commons was publishing tar/zip's to:
/www/www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/*
and publishing jars to:
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven
now they can just publish the jars to
/www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository/commons-projectId/jars
without dealing with accounts or requests to ibiblio. The only reason I can see for jar's to exist (outside of tar/zip) in the dist directory is so they are accessible through maven in java-repository.
If you were making requests to ibiblio to publish your jars in the repository, now you don't have to, just deploy them into java-repository, it gets mirrored to ibiblio, a script processes it into the global maven repository on their end. It just seems more sensible this way to me.
The point is (IMHO) you have a choice where your "jar" distributions will show up now, (1) in the maven repository, or (2) in your specific dist directory with a symlink into java-repository. The former is actually much easier to maintain by maven users, the later should only be for those who aren't interested in using maven. But even in the later case there is a shell script which Jason wrote for publishing into java-repository if they so choose.
-Mark -- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://osprey.hmdc.harvard.edu
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