Re: [jbosstools-dev] Make the "How To Build" page a favorite in your browser

>>> The Nexus repo is added to the top-level pom.xml for each >>> component, so it works without additional effort. >> >> please don't do that. thats a very bad mvn practice. >> >> IMO provide a settings.xml users can use via -s settings.xml or >> copy >> to their ~/.m2/settings.xml instead. > > For what it's worth, I think it's pretty convenient when things > just compile out of the box without any extra configuration steps: > git clone; mvn install. I completely agree on that. > As for it being bad practice, I thought that was one of the > benefits of using Maven: not having to scrounge around for JARs, > etc. to get the project to build. > problem is that repositories listed in pom.xml's are inherited by all projects using them which means they can affect their builds nondeterministcally. It's a flaw of maven. Since the only usecase for this is to get our current parent snapshots and every other jboss project already require changes to settings.xml i'm not too worried - especially if we can just provide a settings.xml to do it.