Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Jody Garnett
Landon Blake wrote: I've messed around with Maven a little bit, and I'm afraid I'll mess around with it some more if I get more involved in GeoTools. There are several ant plugins that will make use of a maven repository to download jars as needed. That is what I end up using for uDig. Jody

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Landon Blake
This is just my humble opinion. I worry sometimes about setting the bar too high for entry level programmers. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:02 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Jody Garnett
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Perhaps you could provide some more general information on what role Maven plays, and what sort of resources and complexity would be involved in OSGeo doing what you suggest. Maven is a build tool that takes a different approach than Ant (or Make). Rather than document a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Common Maven Repository

2008-07-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Paul Austin wrote: I was wondering if it would be possible to have osgeo setup a common maven repository for all GIS projects (not just osgeo projects). At the moment I know that many projects maintain their own repositories which means you have to add a lot of different repository references i