I must admit the "download the internet" effect is true: everybody can see it when running Maven for the first time on a computer. Is that really a problem? IMHO no: - for personal use, this is done only once (and my ADSL line is fine) - for corporate use, a repository manager is really welcome, yes
The most problematic thing in this post is build reproducibility: yes, build reproducibility is crucial, Maven team knows it. Maven builds are reproducible. But back in '2007: people discovered that build reproducibility was not free, since you had to define a version in your pom for *every* plugin, even those that you even don't imagine it's really defined in a plugin (maven-clean-plugin, for example). The myths of a 5-ligns pom.xml being sufficient, or auto-update of plugins being a kewl feature, were broken ;) Yes, this was learned the hard way by many people at that time... Later, in Maven 2.0.9, default plugins versions were added in Maven core, so that even a 5-ligns pom.xml gives a reproducible build: if you stick with a precise Maven version, you'll get the same build. It's not the best way of ensuring reproducible build, explicitely defining your plugin version is still better, but it works. For more information, see [1] Maven 2.0.9 release notes. HTH Hervé [1] http://maven.apache.org/release-notes-older.html ----- Mail Original ----- De: "Todd Thiessen" <thies...@nortel.com> À: "Todd Thiessen" <thies...@nortel.com>, "Maven Users List" <users@maven.apache.org> Envoyé: Vendredi 14 Août 2009 14h55:57 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: RE: Broken by design > We have had some problems with build reproduciblity though. > But it was because of downloading artifacts. Sorry... I meant so say here... It was NOT because of downloading artifacts... Bah. Friday morning... Brain is still not in gear ;-). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
