Hi John,
On 4/27/10 4:00 PM, "John Caron" <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>> I can can volonter for updating the pom.xml files for future 4.x
>> versions of the NetCDF library, but we would probably need someone
>> else with credential for uploading to the central repo.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Martin
>
> Hi Martin, Chris, Brian:
>
> Some questions about maven to you experts. (Im also cc'ing Orion in case
> this helps his "Fedora packaging problem"):
>
> 1) Is there a canonical repository, i.e. "Maven Central" ? Martin
> already has it at geotoolkit.org, is that good enough?
Yep Maven Central is the canonical Maven repository [1]. Sonatype, the
commercial entity that advises/consults on Maven published an interesting
blog article [2] brought up by Jukka Zitting on the Tika mailing lists
regarding the Maven Central and the push towards having canonical jars
uploaded there as a best practice in Maven and those that use it (even if
your project doesn't per se).
There is further information and a good article here [3] that explains the
end-to-end process for uploading your jars to Maven central, regardless of
whether or not you use Maven.
>
> 2) We dont plan (yet anyway) to switch to using maven to build
> netcdf-java. We are willing to upload jar files, and maintain pom files
> (with your help), and anything thats reasonable that doesnt take much
> time. What is the best way to do that?
Check out [1] and [3] and ask any questions that you have from us and we'd
be happy to help out! :)
Thanks for your help, guys!
Cheers,
Chris
[1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html
[2] http://bit.ly/aIYD38
[3] http://www.jroller.com/holy/entry/releasing_a_project_to_maven
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