Many projects in a similar situation ship a "deps" package that contains dependencies and distribute those from the mirrors.
HTH >________________________________ > From: Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez <juanpa...@apache.org> >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 2:42 PM >Subject: downloading external dependencies outside of svn.apache.org > >Hello, > >As a part of JSPWiki's July 2012 incubator report [#1], it was noted that >JSPWiki (incubating) should not ship external jars alongside with code. >This has been achieved in current trunk. However, as part of AOO community >graduation vote thread [#2] it was noted that: > >" If you try to build from source the build system will download packages >from svn.apache.org instead of from elsewhere or the mirrors. That >violates infra policy." > >Which is exactly what is happening to us: we download jars from Central as >much as possible but, as there are a few of them ([#3], [#4]) which are not >published in Central, we download them from svn.apache.org. These jar are >all AL compatible so, the questions are: > >- where can we place them in order to not violate infra policy? >- could this be a -1 towards voting a release? how to proceed? > > >thx & regards, >juan pablo > >[#1] http://s.apache.org/zsq >[#2] http://s.apache.org/8Gk >[#3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/lib/ >[#4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/tests/lib/ > > >
