Re: [jbossdeveloper] <repository /> on quickstarts pom.xml

On 9 Sep 2014, at 12:54, Marek Novotny <mnovotny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 9.9.2014 13:00, Pete Muir wrote: >> On 9 Sep 2014, at 11:35, Marek Novotny <mnovotny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> On 8.9.2014 18:48, Pete Muir wrote: >>>>>>>>>> QSTools ticket: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JDF-762 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> But after placing http://maven.repository.redhat.com/techpreview/all/ at the Quickstarts, I realized that we won't solve the user experience issues without adding - https://maven.repository.redhat.com// and >>>>>>>>>> - http://jboss-developer.github.io/temp-maven-repo/ also >>>>>>>>>> for the -develop branch. >>>>>>>> I’m not sure we need to worry about people using the -develop branch. This is for contributors only, and they can read the instructions normally. >>>>>> So I assume that we need to inject http://maven.repository.redhat.com/techpreview/all/ in pom.xml and make them to add the others in settings.xml >>>> Well, we may want to add earlyaccess too. WDYT? >>>> >>> Why we should have it there for end users? earlyaccess repository is >>> just exceptional resource for public Betas, isn't it? Isn't that >>> confusing to have it there even for traditional GA releases? >> OTOH this is not really the way Maven works. In Maven you tend to mix up all releases, and use version numbers to control what gets pulled in. > Even I agree with your statement, do we have a clean description there > what could end users understand why we have a bunch or repositories > there instead of one? We declared today that you can use our product > maven repository (online techpreview/all or offline zipped repository) > plus Central and then in Quickstarts we use "another" repository. > > I agree that injected repository will help to an end user, but wouldn't > it be simple just as one repository? > > you can easily manage versions in BOM imports etc. but for the learning > purpose it can be confusing. WDYT? Hmm. People are used to adding a second repo for snapshots, which is kinda similar.