Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact repository-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list repository@apache.org Received: (qmail 26268 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2003 08:35:53 -0000 Received: from fep02.tuttopmi.it (HELO fep02-svc.flexmail.it) (212.131.248.101) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Mar 2003 08:35:53 -0000 Received: from apache.org ([80.204.154.181]) by fep02-svc.flexmail.it (InterMail vM.5.01.05.09 201-253-122-126-109-20020611) with ESMTP id <20030310083624.PSVA29557.fep02-svc.flexmail.it@apache.org> for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:36:24 +0100 Message-ID: <3E6C4E69.4090905@apache.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:35:53 +0100 From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Reply-To: nicolaken@apache.org Organization: Apache Software Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: repository@apache.org Subject: Re: [proposal] repository URI format References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N dion@multitask.com.au wrote, On 10/03/2003 9.32: > > > There's plenty of code in Maven for the straight URI alternative. And plenty in Ruper too, and also with multiple protocol support... But that's not the point. distributed repositories, license considerations, naming clashes between conventions, all of these and others clearly indicate that we need metadata, and we need it in a tool-agnostic way. BTW, do you think you could invite here the Maven developers that are discussing now about these issues on the Maven list, so we can get an act together? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) ---------------------------------------------------------------------