Re: Debianizing the Java world?
* Daniel Pocock:
> Specifically, I was thinking that some kind of Maven plugin could be
> developed to scan the dependency graphs of projects and, where possible,
> extract the SCM details from pom.xml manifests and then recursively (a)
> clone their repositories, (b) branch each repo and remove binary
> artifacts (junit.jar is a common example) and then (c) try to build
> those clean branches and push the binary products into a local Maven
> repository.
I don't see how that's improving things by much.
The tough issue is porting all the things in your (personal part of
the) world to use a single version of each component (probably the
most recent version). That also plagues the other language-specific
packaging frameworks.
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