[infinispan-dev] Old JBoss repo in pom.xml

[Pete Muir]

On 19 May 2011, at 11:39, Tristan Tarrant wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:18, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Maven guys used to recommend not putting repos in poms, but they changed that a while back and now don't discourage it.
> 
> Don't know about that, but if you want something in Maven Central, it
> cannot depend on external repos. You can refer to external artifacts,
> but it's up to the user to add them to their own settings.xml / repo.

This was originally a requirement for pushing to central, but they changed it to allow you to refer to external repos in your POM a while back (unless they changed it back again?).