It could be better but far from perfect. Few users are reading this file and are using it to create their own. I think they are often copying it from the page you pointed. There are several annoying things about settings from my point of view but we won't be able to change before a 3.x : - We cannot use properties in mirror url (if we want to switch between several mirrors with different profiles) - We don't have inheritence or mix-in capacity to share some part of them and to split env related settings (repo, mirrors, ..) from personal settings (credentials)
Arnaud Héritier Software Factory Manager eXo platform - http://www.exoplatform.com --- http://www.aheritier.net On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > I assume you want to make it easier for people to get the correct > settings? Moving it from the super pom could have unexpected side > effects, but what if we put the default "boiler plate"[1] > configuration for that into the default settings.xml commented out? I > think this would solve the main visibility problem without affecting > runtime. > > [1] > http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/maven-sect-single-group.html#ex-maven-nexus-simple > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Benjamin Bentmann > <benjamin.bentm...@udo.edu> wrote: > > Paul Gier wrote: > > > >> Would there be any problems if the central repo definition was moved out > >> of the > >> Maven internals and into the default settings.xml [1]? > > > > I assume you refer to the global settings file shipped inside the Maven > > installation directory. The one issue I know about is that embedders of > > Maven like M2E don't have a CLI-style installation directory and hence no > > global settings file. Not impossible to solve but it needs to be > considered. > > > > > > Benjamin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
