Re: Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

2004-06-06 Thread Sancho Neves-Graca
Maven provides the functionality to include resources not in ibiblio.org. I am not arguing about that. All that I want to do can be done with Maven maven.repo.remote, but as I mentioned, this has potential limitations. My suggestion is just to review whether this mechanism is the best that can

Re: Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

2004-06-06 Thread Dion Gillard
Which licensing policy of ibiblio are you referring to? AFAIK, there is none other than legality. You can get this simple build process you want by putting jar overrides in project.properties and supplying the jars that aren't allowed on ibiblio with your project. On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:34:54

Re: Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

2004-06-06 Thread Sancho Neves-Graca
My argument is that at first sight the element suggests that the URL address is used for downloading resources. As I wrote, the current manner to fetch dependencies not stored in ibiblio is to overload maven.repo.remote. This is sufficient for the purposes of accessing libraries needed for use

Re: Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

2004-05-31 Thread David Jencks
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 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

Automatic download of resources not found in ibiblio

2004-05-31 Thread Sancho Neves-Graca
For resources not found in ibilio, the element 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