We can agree to differ on what I'm suggesting and what the impact of that
would be :)

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote:

> Even more than redefining what Central does, you're effectively describing
> a new, unofficial java class packaging and distribution mechanism. This
> seems like it will violate signatures etc and make tracking of what you
> actually have a nightmare.
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr>
> wrote:
>
> > this idea of putting everything in git is funny: not sure this will go
> very
> > far from this poc, but let's imagine...
> >
> > on classes branch, splitting the jar into individual .class has IMHO a
> big
> > drawback: we loose original jar and its signature
> >
> > On the other branches, the current poc shows commits for versions that
> are
> > perfectly linear: if there are multiple branches that are released in
> > parallel, the commit won't be so clean. I don't know if this will have an
> > impact on compression efficiency.
> >
> > Another issue with this idea: during development, with SNAPSHOTs, the git
> > repo
> > will be polluted: this idea IMHO could only be valid for releases
> >
> > not to speak about read concurrency when one requires to use multiple
> > versions
> > of a lib. And of course, write concurrency is even harder.
> >
> >
> > Definitely, the idea is funny, but I don't see how this could go very far
> > than
> > this funny idea (in addition to the complexity for implementing this
> > format in
> > tooling)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hervé
> >
> > Le lundi 15 mai 2017, 21:45:00 CEST Paul Hammant a écrit :
> > > One more repo:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-all/
> > >
> > > One branch for each of classes, javadoc, sources, and poms
> > >
> > > 15 javadoc original versions: 24.1M
> > >
> > > 16 sources original versions: 4.9M
> > >
> > > 27 classes original versions: 8.4M
> > >
> > > Afterwards git work the bare .git folder is: 8.4M
> > >
> > > *77.5% saving on storage*
> > >
> > > Any artifact, *including the poms,* can be pulled down via a single git
> > > command
> > >
> > > git clone https://github.com/paul-hammant/mc-xs-classes --depth 1
> > --branch
> > > TAGNAME
> > >
> > > 74 TAGNAMEs: classes-0.1, classes-0.2, classes-0.3, classes-0.5,
> > > classes-0.6, classes-1.0, classes-1.0.1, classes-1.0.2, classes-1.1,
> > > classes-1.1.1, classes-1.1.2, classes-1.1.3, classes-1.2,
> classes-1.2.1,
> > > classes-1.2.2, classes-1.3, classes-1.3.1, classes-1.4, classes-1.4.1,
> > > classes-1.4.2, classes-1.4.3, classes-1.4.4, classes-1.4.5,
> > classes-1.4.6,
> > > classes-1.4.7, classes-1.4.8, classes-1.4.9, javadoc-1.2,
> javadoc-1.2.1,
> > > javadoc-1.2.2, javadoc-1.3, javadoc-1.3.1, javadoc-1.4, javadoc-1.4.1,
> > > javadoc-1.4.2, javadoc-1.4.3, javadoc-1.4.4, javadoc-1.4.5,
> > javadoc-1.4.6,
> > > javadoc-1.4.7, javadoc-1.4.8, javadoc-1.4.9, pom-1.2, pom-1.2.1,
> > pom-1.2.2,
> > > pom-1.3, pom-1.3.1, pom-1.4, pom-1.4.1, pom-1.4.2, pom-1.4.3,
> pom-1.4.4,
> > > pom-1.4.5, pom-1.4.6, pom-1.4.7, pom-1.4.8, pom-1.4.9, sources-1.1.3,
> > > sources-1.2, sources-1.2.1, sources-1.2.2, sources-1.3, sources-1.3.1,
> > > sources-1.4, sources-1.4.1, sources-1.4.2, sources-1.4.3,
> sources-1.4.4,
> > > sources-1.4.5, sources-1.4.6, sources-1.4.7, sources-1.4.8,
> sources-1.4.9
> > >
> > >  - Paul
> >
> >
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