On 2011-10-26, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

> On 25/10/11 18:21, David Blevins wrote:

>> The tool is not specific to maven and will simply recurssively walk
>> the provided URL and download all files matching the following
>> pattern:

>>      .*\.(jar|zip|war|ear|tar.gz)

> There are some scripts in eye to check sums and sigs, and some
> releases include bz'd tarballs. Would be great to be able to configure
> this.

+1

Also I stumbled over a hard-coded openejb default for the filter
(Main.java line 100).  Might be better to use a command line switch
rather than a system property.

>> Tar.gz files are downloaded though there is currently no support for
>> unpacking them.

> Should be easy to add using Commons compress[1].

> [1] http://commons.apache.org/compress/

That's what I thought as well.  I can lend a hand here.

The upcoming CC release will add support for Pack200 as well, not sure
whether this has ever gotten any traction in Maven land, though.

Stefan

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