Re: [jira] Work Started: (MNG-69) m2 freaks offline becauseibiblio.org not found, even when a valid file:// repository exists in theremote list

[Jason van Zyl <jv...@maven.org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:37, Emmanuel Venisse wrote:

> Just a little question:
> Why we stop the build if metada (pom file) cannot be found. All jars on
> Ibiblio doesn't have a pom V4.

No artifact will be released into the new repository without metadata.
We can stipulate this and we can enforce this. The POM is fundamental to
Maven and it's existence for each and every artifact in the repository
will be manditory for m2. Any sort of real analysis, not to mention
transitive dependencies, becomes impossible and it is something we can
prevent.

We don't have to do 

> We can create in memory a minimal pom object if the pom file doens't exist
> with this information :
> - groupId
> - artifactId
> - version

No. All artifacts will go in with metadata, there will be no choice.

> or do you want to create a script for create missing pom files on ibiblio?

Yes, we do have conversion tools. Trygve has been working on them and we
use them to convert ibiblio right now.

In any event before the final release of m2 it will basically be
impossible to submit an artifact for use in the repository without a
POM.

> Emmanuel

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