I make the distinction where Maven deploys and putting something in production is provisioning.
On Sep 17, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Gorham-Engard, Frank wrote: > I can't help wondering if this entire discussion is continuing because of > semantics. > > I think you are talking about two uses of the word deploy. For a "Maven > Deploy" a standard Maven repository is probably best. For a "Production > Deploy" we must use whatever the production environment provides. If you are > 'deploying' an artifact to be acquired by another Maven project then it is a > "Maven Deploy". If you are 'deploying' a product into a production > environment (where it will execute, for example) it is a "Production deploy". > > How can we de-obfuscate the word deploy that was overloaded by the Maven use? > Also, consider the other overloaded words: package, install, validate, > verify, etc. > > I suppose, on a Maven forum, the words should be used the Maven way. But > ,then how do you ask about the other contexts? > > <!-- Frank Gorham-Engard → > "Be kinder than necessary. > Everyone is fighting some kind of battle." > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com] > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 5:12 PM > To: users@maven.apache.org > Subject: Re: Deploy with SFTP tries to cd to parent too many times > > > On 06/09/2010 2:19 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: >> On Sep 6, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: >> >>> Get Nexus up and running and start to enjoy using Maven. >> I'm sensing a theme here. Anybody reminded of that old joke? "Doctor, it >> hurts when I move my arm like this." Doctor: "Then don't move your arm like >> that." >> >>> It is free. It is easy to install and configure. >> ... >>> We are a small team of 3 but it was well worth the time to get it up and >>> running. >> That you are a small team of 3 is very likely the reason why you found it >> easy to install and configure. I'm assuming one of you 3 set up the server >> yourself, correct? And had root access to it? > Correct >> You probably didn't have to expose Nexus outside the firewall, either. >> > No. We are a distributed operation. >> These are all advantages I'm lacking. I'm working remotely as an external >> contractor and have no control over the company's servers. And it doesn't >> help that I'm the only person using Maven in an all-Microsoft shop. > Probably more trouble than its worth. Stick with Ant or use the > Microsoft tools >> They'd have to integrate the Nexus server's user account management with >> Microsoft Active Directory. (Is that even possible?) And they'd also have to >> configure their firewall just for me so that I may access Nexus from the >> outside. > They should know how to do this. I am not sure why you would bother with > Active Directory for 1 person. Just use Nexus' authentication. > >> This is a company with thousands of employees and a full-time IT security >> engineer; punching holes in their walls is not something they take lightly. >> In short, installing Nexus is by no means easy. >> >> But the company already happens to have a web server with SFTP access >> outside the firewall. They've given me an account on it. I'm simply trying >> to piggyback on this as a repository and use SFTP for deployment, since SFTP >> is a "supported" deployment method. > So they do know how to expose services safely within their environment. > >> Please correct me if I'm wrong about that. >> >> Trevor >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
