On 7 August 2012 09:00, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06.08.2012 21:20, sebb wrote: >> >> On 6 August 2012 16:31, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 03.08.2012 12:45, sebb wrote: >>>> >>>> On 3 August 2012 09:09, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I am currently cleaning up and improving the download mechanism of the >>>>> external tarballs. Most of them (all that are used by the AOO34 >>>>> branch) >>>>> can >>>>> now be found on apache-extras [1]. However, that is intended only as a >>>>> fallback in case the tarballs can not be downloaded directly from their >>>>> original download server. At the moment we use the SVN repository as a >>>>> secondary fallback. I will remove that maybe next week. >>>>> >>>>> I need help regarding the original download site of one of the apache >>>>> commons libraries. The general download page for >>>>> commons-logging-1.1.1-src.tar.gz is [2]. I don't know how to produce a >>>>> URL >>>>> that does not contain a specific mirror but instead is resolved by the >>>>> server. >>>> >>>> You could perhaps download from Maven Central instead: >>>> >>>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/ >>> >>> >>> Is this an instance of maven that uses commons-logging or one that builds >>> (and distributes) it? >> >> Not sure I understand the questions. >> >> That URL is where Maven projects will download Commons Logging from if >> they have a dependency (direct or indirect) on it. >> >> It is the default Maven repository which is embedded in Maven, but >> there's no reason why you should not download jars from it using Ant >> or any other build tool. > > > So essentially this is the apache-extras of maven. Their own backup copy of > commons-logging.
No, it's not. It's the standard way of distributing Maven dependencies. > In that case we can use our own where we can make sure > that the right version is kept. You'll need to run that past infra. But why bother, when the Maven repository is available? It holds all released copies of commons-logging, and the servers are replicated to handle the bandwidth. > -Andre > > >>>>> Does anybody know how to do that? >>>>> >>>>> Andre >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo-extras/ >>>>> [2] http://commons.apache.org/logging/download_logging.cgi >>>>> >>>>> PS: I changed my email address from a...@a-w-f.de to >>>>> awf....@googlemail.com, >>>>> but I am still the same person. >>> >>> >
