On Wednesday 04 May 2005 19:34, Steve Loughran wrote: > maven repositories are fun because every JAR is on a URL; you can pass > them to a URL classloader as is if you want. The .pom also declares > dependencies for transitive work; a bit like debian apt-get.
I have missed this progress. Can you point me to the implementation of this? > -a gui client that could work with the existing Apache repositories > -a client build on AWT for broadest cross platform execution. > -some way of pushing out packages to multiple systems in a cluster > -support per/user, per-system packages > -good auditing to determine package set (with JMX integration) > > That is, a Java successor to all the rpm management tools. Do you have any pointer to more elaborate ideas in this area?? > Incidentally, one pressing problem with the maven repositories is > there is no easy way to fetch Sun stuff. That is, if I want to use > Axis with mail.jar and activation,jar, you cant get those from the > Apache site for legal reasons. Do you propose any solution to the > clickthrough licensing problem? Milos, didn't Netbeans itself devise some funky system for the non-distributables and click-thru license approvals?? Cheers Niclas
