Re: Another Maven nugget

Tim Jowers wrote:
>
>    I missed replying to the earlier thread but one other nugget from 
> the meeting was the ability to build from packges stored on the Maven 
> source repos. Why is this important?  If you believe in the "Internet 
> is the computer" then the ability to link source/binaries across 
> servers becomes important. It's not quite webservices but it is remote 
> access to binary code. 
That sounds vaguely interesting.. until you try to build and the network 
is down. :-(  That's actually one problem I have with Maven as it 
stands, and why *if* I were running Maven, I'd
absolutely insist on a local repo mirror on the local LAN...  depending 
on ibiblio.org or maven.org is just too inconsistent for me.

> Suddenly CLASSPATH becomes much larger. 
I'm not so sure that's a Good Thing. :-)
> Some people are working on a corollary of this with dynamic object 
> linking via the Linux UnionFS with the first layer being local or 
> cdrom and the second being nfs or sshfs or what have you. So, one 
> foundational technology of Maven is the ability to auto-link with 
> source others are maintaining. That's a new concept IME.
>
Sounds interesting... hopefully the speaker from that talk provided his 
slides to post on Trijug.org... if so, I'll be interested to at least 
take a look.  I'm probably a little "anti Maven"
in general, but I do try to be open minded. :-)


TTYL,


Phil

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