Maven downloads [was [ALL] Votes and staging repositories]

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

On 21 December 2013 17:15, Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:37 AM, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21 December 2013 16:25, Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:09 AM, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 21 December 2013 15:41, Oliver Heger <ol...@oliver-heger.de>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > a side note to the ongoing vote for [codec]:
>> >> >
>> >> > The vote mail points to the staging repository containing all maven
>> >> > artifacts including the distributions. When the release is done, the
>> >> > repository has to be cleaned to remove the files which should not go
>> to
>> >> > Maven central. This is a manual and error-prone process.
>> >>
>> >> So far...
>> >>
>> >> I did do some work on trying to automate it, but I found the Nexus API
>> >> very hard to understand.
>> >>
>> >> It's easy enough to download the non-Maven files using http(s) and
>> >> commit them (svnmucc) to dist/dev or a personl login on people,
>> >> but deleting files from Nexus seems to be quite tricky. Of course that
>> >> is where errors are most critical.
>> >>
>> >
>> > (Trying not to rant ;)
>> > I would prefer to click Release in Nexus with the staging repo as it is,
>> > including the -bin and -src files.
>> >
>> > I have, _several times_, deleted the wrong .asc, .md5 or .something file
>> > such that Nexus would not release, this is a !@#$ nightmare. Especially
>> > since you have to manually use the Nexus Web UI to delete
>>
>> Yes, it does need a lot of care when tidying up Nexus; the UI is not
>> well designed (e.g. the name of the object you are deleting is not
>> shown in the dialog)
>>
>> However, it should be tidied before closing the staging area, in which
>> case it's easy to start again.
>>
>> > Releasing the pile, would let me download 'buildable' artifacts. I wish
>> > JMeter and ActiveMQ did that for example, this way I could install from
>> > Maven directly and not have to feed my work Artifact repo with the -bin
>> > zips.
>>
>> As I've already written, JMeter release all its jars to Maven already.
>> If ActiveMQ does not release all the required jars, then raise an
>> enhancement issue with them.
>>
>
> It's not the jars I am talking about, it's the -bin.zip files (for JMeter
> and ActiveMQ) which I need to be downloaded and unzipped during a build for
> integration testing.

This is getting off-topic, so have changed the subject.

AFAIK Maven already contains everything from the JMeter bin archive.
If not, then please raise an issue with the JMeter project.

Similarly for ActiveMQ.

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