Re: The maven-archetype-plugin paradox

2017-05-18 Thread Amélie Deltour
ARCHETYPE-520 (and ARCHETYPE-358) are indeed close to the problem I try to describe, but not exactly the same. These issues are about using the mirror configuration to access archetype data, i.e. using http://myrepo.mycompany/maven/archetype-catalog.xml instead of direct access to http://repo1.

Re: Silly Saturday idea - If Maven Central were a bunch of Git repos

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Hammant
Of course that content-based-storage system isn't a whole FS. That'll take us back to where we were with some of the ClearCase modes of operaton where all IO slowed down. Or worse - PVCS Dimensions in regular use. It's just for read only pieces of our build-centric world. -ph On Thu, May 18, 20

Re: Silly Saturday idea - If Maven Central were a bunch of Git repos

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Hammant
You know, I think it would be cool if there were file systems that would implement a form of a 'link' as part of a content-based-storage mechanism like Git itself. Meaning if I ran the above git-clone/jar command twice in two different directories it would only store the result once (assuming idem

Re: Silly Saturday idea - If Maven Central were a bunch of Git repos

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Hammant
> > I'm not sure I'm not mistaken for the read part: with the current repo > format, > one thing that is super easy is that each artifact version is just a path > that > you can use simultaneously in one build or in multiple builds > e.g. build #1 using --classpath ~/.m2/repo/tw/xstream-1.4.3.jar

Re: Maven-monitor still in use?

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Hammant
Hervé, Maven Monitor was a Maven 2 artifact [1] > It was dropped in Maven 3 "as an artifact": code was moved to maven-core > during the Great Refactoring (TM) [2] > > Thanks - it's a total red herring to chase that component then. > Then you'll see that EventMonitor has been deprecated, in favo