On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Guymon <michael.guy...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I created a patch so that
>
>
> repositories.remote << { :url => 'https://a.secure.repo/maven2', :username
> => 'blah', :password => 'blah' }
>
> will work for http basic auth. When an artifact is downloaded, the auth
> information is passed to the HTTP transport.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-577
Excellent! Thank you!
> There might be an issue with the patch, since it changes the format of
> repositories.remote. Instead of just being a String, it is stored as a hash
> {:url => URI} or with optional auth {:url => URI, :username => String,
> :password => String}. How horrible is this for backwards compatibility?
>
Personally, I'm not too worried about it since it's an "opt-in" feature --
existing builds are not affected unless they use the feature. Plugins may
need to be adapted to support the hash but that's usually a trivial change
and I don't know of any plugin that uses repositories.remote to access URLs
and such.
alex
