On 4/9/16, 12:53 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
>I can't remember a millisecond in which Maven central has been down for >the last 10 years. But google is mirroring Maven central so this would >just be a base url that has to be changed for all artifacts. > >I always feel bad when I hear something about hacking and patching :-( Me too. Unfortunately, I have little expertise in release/build config management and didn't know that archive.a.o could go down. How does Maven build in redundancy in the event Maven Central does go down? I would imagine they could just do an http redirect to the Google mirror so folks wouldn't have to change their poms? Or is there a way to write the poms to tell Maven to check some other base URL so we could flip a switch ourselves? Or does Maven's download code know to hit a mirror if Maven Central returns an error? I'd like to try to have the Ant installer have similar redundancy. Thanks, -Alex
