Hi, I know one good reason why local repository is set per user, and if I remember history it was the main reason why this change was implemented since beta-9.
The matter is that local repository contains not only external depencencies of a project you develop. It contains also the developed artifact that might be in inconsistent state - artifact:install puts them into local repository. Morover, you can't avoid that if you use reactored build process - artifacts created in a subproject should be installed into the local repository to become visible to other subprojects. So separation of users' local repositories prevents conflicts when several persons work on the same project in parallel. Especially if you use SNAPSHOT's in your projects' dependencies. But even keeping all this in mind, it would be reasonable to share part of the local repository that contains only external dependencies. I suggested the concepts of "three repos - remote, shared, local" instead of the current "two repos - remote local" while ago. Henning suggested it too and he even provided a patch that was not accepted (see http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msg No=695. Probably it is the time to recover this issue again? -- Alexei Barantsev, ISP RAS E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 3959207 > -----Original Message----- > From: Federico Spinazzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:30 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: why repository is set per user? > > Hy, > second question in too little time, sorry. > > I'd like to know which is the reason maven rc1 uses a per > user repository by default. > It seems like a vaste of space as each user have his own repository. > There should be a good reason but I cannot understand it. > Thank you very much > Federico > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
