Re: Repository organization for complex project

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Our C/C++ guys just use curl to POST the binaries to Nexus over
> http... we also POST the .pom file and the .md5 and .sha1 files...
> that is because one of their build toolchain envs cannot have Java on
> it... Nexus will rebuild the metadata.xml files for you, so all you
> really need is to post the .pom and the e.g. .so and the .pom.md5,
> .pom.sha1, .so.md5 and .so.sha1 files and you're done.

I would think that you'd need whatever protocol Maven uses to actually
put files on the repository. I guess the Maven protocol is simpler
than I thought and simply uses webdav authentication and the mvn
file::deploy simply calculates the URL for you.

That's good to know. That means you can replace all of Maven with some
fairly simple shell scripts using curl. Then in a non-Java project,
all the Maven repositories do is provide a nice interface for
searching and administration of a HTTP based repository.

-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com