On 10/14/2010 8:24 AM, David Weintraub wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
Our C/C++ guys just use curl to POST the binaries to Nexus over
http... we also POST the .pom file and the .md5 and .sha1 files...
that is because one of their build toolchain envs cannot have Java on
it... Nexus will rebuild the metadata.xml files for you, so all you
really need is to post the .pom and the e.g. .so and the .pom.md5,
.pom.sha1, .so.md5 and .so.sha1 files and you're done.
I would think that you'd need whatever protocol Maven uses to actually
put files on the repository. I guess the Maven protocol is simpler
than I thought and simply uses webdav authentication and the mvn
file::deploy simply calculates the URL for you.
That's good to know. That means you can replace all of Maven with some
fairly simple shell scripts using curl. Then in a non-Java project,
all the Maven repositories do is provide a nice interface for
searching and administration of a HTTP based repository.
Is there a maven-for-dummies reference somewhere that would make a good
starting point for how the repository is supposed to work? I tend to
get lost easily with java-like things that have a bazillion separate
config files all over the place. Also, is mirroring/redundancy built
into the design?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
