distribute maven project with lib not in a repo

[Nicola Benaglia <ni...@tecno-progetti.eu>]

Hi,
I should distribute a maven project which requires some libs at runtime 
not contained in a maven repos.
What best practices should I follow? I think it's a common problem; not 
all projects are "mavenized" (yet).
1. distribute these libs and suggest to use mvn install:install-file ?
2. put libs in a /lib directory and use dependency system-scope inside 
the pom.xml ? but this requires an absolute path, and I don't know where 
the user put the project.

Any suggestion?

Thank you,
nicola

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Re: distribute maven project with lib not in a repo

[Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>]

Option 1 is what most people will pick to solve this problem.

Alternatively, you can set up a Maven Repo yourself (with Archiva,
Nexus, Artifactory, etc) and add that lib to the repo, then add the
repo to the pom and it should be retrieved and used automatically. If
you are only dealing with internal customers, this is an easy option
for most people.

Wayne

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Nicola Benaglia
<ni...@tecno-progetti.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I should distribute a maven project which requires some libs at runtime not
> contained in a maven repos.
>  What best practices should I follow? I think it's a common problem; not all
> projects are "mavenized" (yet).
>  1. distribute these libs and suggest to use mvn install:install-file ?
>  2. put libs in a /lib directory and use dependency system-scope inside the
> pom.xml ? but this requires an absolute path, and I don't know where the
> user put the project.
>
>  Any suggestion?
>
>  Thank you,
>  nicola
>
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