Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-07 Thread Carlos Sanchez
We already do 2, it should be easier, but we already have that with the synced repositories. Central ideally is an aggregation of other repos, if anybody wants to pick up a group, just ask for. On 5/7/07, Joerg Hohwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-07 Thread Joerg Hohwiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, > The biggest problem as I see it is not the groupId structures (although it > DOES bother me...) but rather the dependencies metadata which is often > incorrect, or atleast not quite right. Examples are numerous and range from > optional dep

Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-06 Thread Arik Kfir
The biggest problem as I see it is not the groupId structures (although it DOES bother me...) but rather the dependencies metadata which is often incorrect, or atleast not quite right. Examples are numerous and range from optional dependencies marked as required, testing dependencies in compile sc

Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-06 Thread Joerg Hohwiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hi, Hello, > > I'd like to throw in my 2 cents. The maven repository was (as I recall) > started back in the Maven 1.x days, when people didn't REALLY do ANY > dependency management. Since then, the repository grew, Maven1.x grew and > grew. A while

Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-05 Thread Arik Kfir
Hi, I'd like to throw in my 2 cents. The maven repository was (as I recall) started back in the Maven 1.x days, when people didn't REALLY do ANY dependency management. Since then, the repository grew, Maven1.x grew and grew. A while later, Maven 2.x was released, and AFAIK the Maven 2.xrepository

Re: avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-04 Thread Carlos Sanchez
We are really aware of these problems, and it's not just Maven, Ant, Ivy and other tools also make use of the repository. There are mailing lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for ASF repository) and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for the whole central repo). i'd just point to http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-

avoid that central repo gets garbage dump

2007-05-04 Thread Joerg Hohwiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I am seeing more and more the need that the community takes better control over what is dumped into the central repo. This seems to get more and more like a rubbish dump. There are duplications of the logically same artifacts. This causes ex