> Lurking around here to find out how to cross-pollinate or merge the Depot > efforts with the apparent parallel of the Avalon Repository, which in essence > have the same goals (and perhaps some more);
(As you might recall) I once tried to find out more about Avalon's repository work, but then got too swamped to follow-up. Actually, Depot (as it stands today) would rather be a set of client-side tools than an actual repository. Basically it has commandline tools, ant tasks, and APIs to fit into folks environments. It seems (to me) that if we can break down the issues of dependencies (and version compatibility ranges within those) we can start to agree on repositories/tools/naming. I guess this is how I got myself roped into Gump, and have note focused on Depot. FWIIW: and I'm eager to dig into versions, since Jar-Hell is my pet peave/motivator. > I (and Stephen I think) have not dug into the details of what you have, and > that is perhaps a shame in itself. > But at the same time, I 'feel' we have a higher level of maturity in Avalon > Repository (it is running in production systems) and I don't see Depot > community jumping up and down waving arms saying "Use this instead" or trying > to absorb the features that we desparately need. We tried the 'Repository', but [IMHO] the problem is too large (and perhaps subjective) to handle at a theory level. I think this problem will only be broken with enough folks getting hand on experience (e.g. Wagon). I want to see Depot succeed if no more than as prototype, and experiment into the space. I'd be nice if it could do more. Also, I think this problem can only be broken with small/focused/standalone tools -- like a browser separate from an HTTP server -- so folks don't get into an all or nothing situation. Hence, I think Depot ought start as a client, maybe forever. So -- Avalon repository. How do we see about talking to it? What protocols/APIs? Depot tends to use HTTP (to a file system based repository, ala Maven's Ibiblio, ala ASFRepo spec.) What more is wanted? regards, Adam
