Re: proposal, a wagon for sourceforge repositories

by Jason van Zyl-2 :: Rate this Message:

On 13-Apr-08, at 11:49 AM, david delbecq wrote:

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> Jason van Zyl a écrit :
>> Why would you use anything other then the proliferation of options
>> with normal HTTP.
>>
>> Why don't you get them to use something more standard so that you
>> can use what everyone else is using.
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> Because, for sourceforge hosted projects
>
> 1) you don't have the allowance to host the binaries (jars of
> others) inside the sourceforge web hosting area. So the idea of
> having a maven repo inside your project.sf.net/ is no go

Fine, let's create one for you at Contegix that you guys can use.

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> 2) To get artifact hosted on maven2 official repo, you need to
> either have your own repo (which is impossible on sourceforge) or
> ask for manual installation of package (4 weeks delay!)

Lots of sourceforge projects have direct syncs with the maven2
repository. They get synced every 4 hours.

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> 3) The process of releasing one or several file for sourceforge
> implies: Uploading to an anonymous ftp server, login to your
> project, eventually create package and release, select amongst the
> list of files currently in the ftp server which one concerns you,
> select various informations about that file and then confirm you
> want to release it. Considering my experience, it takes about 30
> minutes per file to do manually. In the past (maven1) i have found
> the maven release plugin very useful for this and it's the primary
> aim of this wagon. This wagon is able to also download, but it's not
> it's primary objective.

Then just avoid and we can do 1) or 2) for you guys.

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Thanks,

Jason

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