Until someone from the maven team clarifies everything is questionable but I had thought the URL tag is used just for the website link to the dependent library when generating docs.
It is not used to locate or download the resource. Alex > > From: Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/01/30 Fri AM 05:31:58 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [2nd edition] MAVEN dependencies' mechanism > > > If I did not miss-understand the maven dependencies' mechanism in > > project.xml : > > > > > > With > > <dependencies> > > <dependency> > > <id>DEPEND</id> > > <version>1.0</version> > > <url>http://address/plugin/</url> > > </dependency> > > </dependencies> > > Maven will first try to download "http://address/plugin/DEPEND/jars/DEPEND > > -1.0.jar" under $MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/repository/DEPEND/jars/DEPEND-1.0.jar > > (I'm new to Maven, so take this with a grain of salt) > > I first had the same impression as you, but after investigation it seems that > the url tag is just used to suggest that URL to the user if the download failed, > so that the user can download it manually (e.g. if the license does not allow > the jar to be put in a repository). > > If you want a plugin to be downloaded from an alternate repository, what I know > works is to declare it in a file build.properties in your home directory > (~/build.properties on Unix, not sure about windows). Example: > > maven.repo.remote=http://nice.sf.net/maven,http://www.ibiblio.org/maven > > (ibiblio is the default maven repository) > > Daniel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
