> From: Srinath Perera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Note: Please sombody do me a favour if possible (Sorry if this is straight > foward Q ... I am reading abut maven .. want get answers yet) > 1) I am having trouble runing the maven build (I can't afford to download > all the jar on time of build ..will take hours :( ... I have all jar's > locally How can I use it) > 2)for the sake of people(including me ) who want to run the maven offline > can we have a alternative build file. I will commit it but prob is am > can't figure out how to do it yet. :(
For what it is worth I also believe that there should be an offline means of building. Maybe, instead of downloading all of the jars, just download a list of required jars with version numbers and/or check sums. Then have maven issue warnings for those jars that are out of date. Mike
