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Repository federation

Open gavinking opened this issue 11 years ago • 2 comments

Herd should be able to federate external repos, especially maven repos, to allow Ceylon modules distributed via Herd to refer to dependencies actually provided by an external maven repo, without that detail necessarily being visible to the client.

gavinking avatar Jun 12 '13 19:06 gavinking

If you mean that herd should let you see and browse maven repos as if it were merged in then I don t think this is a good idea as it would slow it down too much. ATM you can specify if a dependency comes from maven or not during upload and we will check its presence in maven central which is the next best thing given that proxying remote repos would be slowing us down.

Well, I suppose we could run a local mirror of maven central and sync it with rsync or what they use to distribute mirrors but I don t like the idea...

FroMage avatar Jun 13 '13 04:06 FroMage

Well, I'm primarily interested in maven as a source of dependencies, without forcing the user to know about it.

gavinking avatar Jun 13 '13 06:06 gavinking