On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 08:52 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
I suppose my biggest concern is in the lag in getting jars into the repository. When I need to build using a new jar that is not at iBiblio, I have to make other arrangements as a temporary measure - and then tell my co-workers to do the same thing. if I could simply point to the sourceforge project which is the ultimate host, I wouldn't need to do that. And I could use the exact same mechanism for internal projects. The distribution is available already, so why should I have to take an extra step to argue for the inclusion of a new jar evertime it is released - or even when a pre-release version is available?On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 08:38, Russell Gold wrote:There has been discussion of a PORTs like system, but I feel the central2) directly from the distribution sites to avoid the need to burden a central repository?
repository is not a burden at all and a good thing. Ibiblio is sometimes
slow but reliable and many Maven users have commented on the convenience
of single stop shopping at the central repository. We can certainly add
pointers but when things land at Ibiblio they are archived in
perpetuity. And one of their primary mandates is the proliferation of
OSS software.
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