Simone Gianni wrote: > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > >> What happens *if* Mergere runs out of juice and flip the switch off? >> >> > IIUC, maven repos are nothing more than HTTP servers, and SVN is > accessible thru HTTP, so we can create a folder named "repository" in > our svn repo, copy the folders of artifacts we need from ibiblio, and > have complete control over it. This is technically possible (and would > also solve maaaaaaaany other problems), but does not solve the legal > stuff maven repos solve about redistributing others work.
A good idea, but I can't see any way in which infrastructure would allow this. That is because it would prevent any useful partitioning of resources. Maven is likely to become a resource hog, and could easily bring SVN down to its knees. Much better that it only be the MVN repo that goes down at such a time, and not our SVN repo too. Upayavira
