Can you explain "the obvious reasons"?
There are some fundamental problems with current maven local repository
approach, but this is the first time I hear somebody complains about the
default location, so I'd like to understand better the problem(s) you
are trying to solve.
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Regards,
Igor
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017, at 07:15 PM, Simon Ochsenreither wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm interested in improving Maven's compliance with the XDG spec that
> defines standardized directories for different kinds of data stored by
> applications.
>
> Currently, Maven just dumps things into a .m2 folder in $HOME. This is
> bad for all the obvious reasons.
> I'd like to contribute to improve this situation while taking care to
> not disrupt existing users.
>
> From a superficial investigation, this requires changes to
> org.apache.maven.repository.RepositorySystem,
> org.apache.maven.cli.{MavenCli,
> configuration.SystemXmlConfigurationProcessor},
> org.apache.maven.settings.RuntimeInfo.java, as well as some other places
> in the code base where paths have been hardcoded.
> (Is there any reason why pretty much the same code is copied to so many
> different places?)
>
> I'd probably approach this by defining an enum PlatformPaths with
> "DEFAULT" (the current behavior, or the behavior chosen when no other
> behavior can be applied) and "LINUX" (following the XDG spec).
> Definitions for other platforms (Windows, MacOS) could then be added by
> defining additional enums.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
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