Hi, [This is out of order, but the mail I sent previously got bounced back to me, and I only noticed it now.]
> Christian outline the ideas below, I just want to add that imho, the point > point is that mvn urls actually abstract the real location. Thus, you can > change policies without having to modify the content of the repositories. Yes, this is very nice, but IIUC, this was developed by pax url. I am sure that the same could be done for OBR. I do not believe that this is or ever was part of the maven spec. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) > One additional thing that Christian did not mention is the fact that all > maven artifacts are cached to the disk. That’s possible, because the real > urls are abstracted. Ditto. Something that could also eventually be developed for OBR as well. > If we were to use plain http urls, even if the xml repository would contain > resource with relative urls (which is not permitted by the spec), we’d loose > lots of those benefits, and you'd still need a "repository" to hold both the > xml repository and the bundles. No doubt. Cheers, =David
