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John Casey commented on MASSEMBLY-186: -------------------------------------- If you want to develop a patch to enable this sort of behavior, that would be okay with me...otherwise, it's a backburner issue... :-) > Download files from HTTP or FTP > ------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-186 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-186 > Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: New Feature > Environment: All > Reporter: Marcel Schoen > Priority: Minor > > It would be nice if the assembly plugin could also gather files to be packed > from external sources over HTTP or FTP. The configuration could look like > this: > <urlSet> > <url>http://files.acme.com/data</url> > <excludes> > <exclude>**/*.jar</exclude> > </excludes> > <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory> > </urlSet> > <urlSet> > <url>ftp://files.acme.com/data</url> > <excludes> > <exclude>**/*.jar</exclude> > </excludes> > <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory> > </urlSet> > It could support basically every available URL protocoll suitable for file > retrieval, like "scp:", "smb:" etc. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira