2011/10/14 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > On 14/10/2011 09:15, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> 2011/10/14 David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com>: >>> We've been using plain Tomcat zips for creating TomEE in the >>> OpenEJB maven build for a while now. So far that has been done by >>> publishing the Tomcat zips to a maven repo in svn. Not the best >>> idea to have them in svn, so we're trying to get them in the actual >>> maven repo. >> >> Can't maven be taught to download them from proper ASF mirrors? > Possible using this plugin http://mojo.codehaus.org/wagon-maven-plugin/download-single-mojo.html > +1 > > There is already a world-wide distribution system in place for the > file(s) concerned so it makes sense that it should be used. > > Adding the full .zip archive to any Maven repo just seems wrong to me > (and using the ASF svn server for this is definitely a very bad idea) > but if the folks managing the main Maven repo are happy with this then I > have no objection. The Central Maven repo already contains huge distrib sample http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/archiva/archiva-jetty/1.3.5/archiva-jetty-1.3.5-bin.zip which is ~29M. > > Since the requirements for this are driven by the OpenEJB project and - > as far as I am aware - they are the only folks with this requirement, I > suggest that OpenEJB runs with this and publishes the .zip to the main > Maven repo under the OpenEJB group id. > > To ensure that no confusion is caused by this publishing I would ask that: > - the zip published is an exact copy of that on the mirror system If you sep the same file in dist on p.a.o and to the repo on this machine. I don't see why. > - the zip is not made available via Maven any earlier than it is > available via the mirrors The sync from p.a.o is once a day 5:16 PM CST . > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
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