From my perspective as a maven user...
On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 02:50 PM, Sancho Neves-Graca wrote:
For resources not found in ibilio, the element <url> can be used to display an address where the resource can be fetched. However, this is not really in accordance with one of the objectives of maven, mainly to provide a build system independent of the local environment. I dread the idea of writing instructions about how to save an archive necessary for my application in the local maven repository. It would be a major putoff for many readers of the book and a source of errors.
Can you set up a website for your book that includes a suitable repository?
It could be argued that the resource should exist in ibiblio, but this is not a realistic workaround. Some resources simply can not be uploaded,
either because of its pre-release status,
this is what SNAPSHOT is for
for licensing constraints
In this case automatic download from a URL won't work either
or simply to avoid the awkward upload requests for ibiblioIf this is still true, it is a process bug not related to the maven structure.
. Would it not be necessary to implement automatic download from the specified URL should it not exist in the local repository? A workaround has been previously suggested in this mailing list (add URLs to maven.repo.remote) but using the <url> element is much more intuitive (it is not intuitive as of now, where this element is used only for documentation purposes).
Hijacking the url tag for purposes of automated download would break its current function of letting people answer the question, "What does this do, anyway?"
I fear that adding a second way to obtain artifacts will result in wholesale confusion.
thanks david jencks
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