[windup-dev] Discussion: Data files in maven repo

Hi, WRT WINDUP-459 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WINDUP-459> Rules request: Identify archives by their hash: I guess this need (for bulk data from an external source) will appear in more rulesets. We agreed that the best way to build, store and distribute the offline data will be best through artifacts, resp. through a maven repo. 1) Should it have independent release cycle? IMO it should. 2) If so - which git repo to put it to? 3) Can Forge/Furnace work well with ZIP artifacts? I.e, if there's a <packaging>zip</packaging>, can that be an addon? 4) If something is an addon, is it better to access it as a resource on classpath, or as a zip file, after figuring out where it is on local FS? FYI, currently I just create a zip assembly windup-nexusindexreader-mappings-<V>.jar, next to windup-nexusindexreader-<V>.jar The artifact size is 45 MB. Regards, Ondra