Hello John,
I think we might be talking about two different things here.
Internally, Apache ACE uses a couple of Repository services to store and
retrieve its information (definition of artifacts, features, distributions and
targets). The API for them is:
public interface Repository {
public SortedRangeSet getRange() throws IOException;
public boolean commit(InputStream data, long fromVersion) throws
IOException, IllegalArgumentException;
public InputStream checkout(long version) throws IOException,
IllegalArgumentException;
}
These repositories are now implemented with a backend store that simply stores
each "blob" on the filesystem. This is what I was talking about when replying
to Taran (and I hope I did not misunderstand the original question).
The OBR is a different story. There I totally agree with you that we should be
able to pull artifacts from any of the existing repositories out there
(Artifactory, Nexus, ...). For ACE, an artifact is a bunch of metadata and a
URL, so you can in fact already directly refer to artifacts in any repository.
Some nice UI for that would be welcome though.
Greetings, Marcel
On Aug 12, 2012, at 2:18 AM, John Dunlap wrote:
> IMHO it would make considerably more sense to use the sonatype aether api to
> pull artifacts directly from maven repositories instead of using a source
> control system to deliver binary artifacts. That's my two cents, for whatever
> it is worth.
>
> Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on AT&T
>
> Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Taran,
>>
>> Actually, when we designed the API for the repositories (this was before the
>> project was donated to Apache) we actually had a discussion about
>> implementing them with Git. This was over five years ago though, when there
>> was no Java implementation of Git, nor such wide adoption. However, the API
>> is simple enough to easily implement in either Git or some other version
>> control system and doing so might give you a lot of benefits, such as free
>> replication, etc.
>>
>> We definitely would not mind a contribution of an alternative implementation
>> in this area!
>>
>> Greetings, Marcel
>>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Taranbir Singh - ERS, HCL Tech wrote:
>>
>>> Currently ACE manage the repositories on filesystem.
>>>
>>> Just want to check if there are any plans to integrate the repository
>>> feature of ACE with existing tools like GIT, SVN etc ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Taran
>>
