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Subject: RE: Local Maven repository. Newbie question...
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:33:07 -0500
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I'm not sure what's going on... The first time I ran maven 2, it
autocreated both the .m2/repository directory and the .m2/settings.xml
file. Both empty, but just present is sufficient if nothing needs to be
in them yet.=20

Have you tried to run Maven and found that it crashes? Or are you just
reading the documents right now? (In the latter case, yeah, I had better
luck skimming them for basic ideas and then reading newsgroup posts and
doing trial and error to figure out the details for myself.)

~DVA

-----Original Message-----
From: JG Flowers [mailto:Jeremy_G_Flowers@yahoo.co.uk]=20
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:05 PM
To: users@maven.apache.org
Subject: RE: Local Maven repository. Newbie question...


Argh!!! It's a Windows Explorer thing.. :-U
Can name a directory with . prefix with md from command prompt...
Still directory has no repositoty in it. But reading on a bit further it
talks about creating a settings.xml file.
I think it's a chicken or egg thing. In writing the book they talk about
things in chapter 1 than get covered for first time in chapter 2... %-|=20
Cheers for reply, Jeremy


Allen, Daniel wrote:
>=20
> Not saying for sure that this is what's going on, but in my experience
> it seems like XP only makes that complaint if *you* try to name a
folder
> that, while automated processes can get away with it. That is, the
check
> is only part of the UI, not an actual file system rule. I'm developing
> on XP, and my local repository cache is in C:\Docs &
> Settings\username\.m2 as usual, and in fact I have several other apps
> born on Unix that name directories with a leading dot.
>=20
> You mileage may vary, though; I'm on a fancy corporate network set up
to
> share drives between Unix systems and Windows desktops, so maybe IT
did
> something magical that they never told me about to make this possible.
> Try to run Maven, and see if it autocreates the directory.
>=20
> ~Dan Allen
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JG Flowers [mailto:Jeremy_G_Flowers@yahoo.co.uk]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:32 PM
> To: users@maven.apache.org
> Subject: Local Maven repository. Newbie question...
>=20
>=20
> Reading Better Builds with Maven. from Devzuz
> It says on page 32 "When you install and run Maven for the first time,
> it
> will create your local repository and populate it
> with artifacts as a result of dependency requests. By default, Maven
> creates
> your local repository in
> <user_home>/.m2/repository. You must have a local repository in order
> for
> Maven to work."
>=20
> Now I'm using XP and I'm assuming <user_home> will be substituted with
> %USERPROFILE% environment variable.
> But on XP you can't have a directory named ".m2", XP groans and says
you
> must have a file name, for it thinks you are just specifying an
> extension.
>=20
> Have done the install. When I run mvn --version it says everything's
ok.
> So
> where is my repository?
> The last thing booksays is you must have local repository for Maven to
> work.
> Confused.. You bet :confused:
> Any
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