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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:00:25 +0200
From: Andre Fischer <awf.aoo@gmail.com>
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On 06.08.2012 21:20, sebb wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 16:31, Andre Fischer <awf.aoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03.08.2012 12:45, sebb wrote:
>>> On 3 August 2012 09:09, Andre Fischer <awf.aoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am currently cleaning up and improving the download mechanism of the
>>>> external tarballs.  Most of them (all that are used by the AOO34 branch)
>>>> can
>>>> now be found on apache-extras [1].  However, that is intended only as a
>>>> fallback in case the tarballs can not be downloaded directly from their
>>>> original download server.  At the moment we use the SVN repository as a
>>>> secondary fallback.  I will remove that maybe next week.
>>>>
>>>> I need help regarding the original download site of one of the apache
>>>> commons libraries.  The general download page for
>>>> commons-logging-1.1.1-src.tar.gz is [2].  I don't know how to produce a
>>>> URL
>>>> that does not contain a specific mirror but instead is resolved by the
>>>> server.
>>> You could perhaps download from Maven Central instead:
>>>
>>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/
>>
>> Is this an instance of maven that uses commons-logging or one that builds
>> (and distributes) it?
> Not sure I understand the questions.
>
> That URL is where Maven projects will download Commons Logging from if
> they have a dependency (direct or indirect) on it.
>
> It is the default Maven repository which is embedded in Maven, but
> there's no reason why you should not download jars from it using Ant
> or any other build tool.

So essentially this is the apache-extras of maven.  Their own backup 
copy of commons-logging.  In that case we can use our own where we can 
make sure that the right version is kept.

-Andre

>>>> Does anybody know how to do that?
>>>>
>>>> Andre
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo-extras/
>>>> [2] http://commons.apache.org/logging/download_logging.cgi
>>>>
>>>> PS: I changed my email address from af@a-w-f.de to
>>>> awf.aoo@googlemail.com,
>>>> but I am still the same person.
>>