[Biojava-dev] BioJava3 on Maven Central?

[Michael Heuer]

I think we need to try (again) to push our external dependencies to
publish to Maven Central so that we can in turn, or remove or replace
those external dependencies if that is not possible.

Sonatype will explicitly not allow option 1) below, see

https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Sonatype+OSS+Maven+Repository+Usage+Guide#SonatypeOSSMavenRepositoryUsageGuide-6.CentralSyncRequirement

and I can't imagine Apache would allow the rsync option from the biojava
repository, as they aren't really supporting that any more.

   michael


On Thu, 5 May 2011, Andreas Prlic wrote:

> Hi Trevor,
>
> I guess in principle we would like to have all of BioJava  in Maven
> central, however as you already know there is the issue with the
> external dependencies...
>
> Not all of the modules have external dependencies. However I am not
> sure how helpful a partial upload of BioJava would be, containing only
> a sub-set of the available libraries...
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:08 AM, PATERSON Trevor
> <trevor.paterson at roslin.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > We are keen to publish our JEnsembl artifacts on Maven Central, and our JEnsembl code depends on the biojava3-core artifact.
> >
> > (see http://jensembl.sourceforge.net/).
> >
> > Central now strongly discourage referring to external repositories (like biojava) because there is no guarantee of permanence.
> >
> > (see http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/03/why-external-repos-are-being-phased-out-of-central/).
> >
> > I know that external dependencies were a snafu last time publishing biojava on Central was discussed - is that still the case?
> >
> > Unless you have considered again publishing to Central, if we do go ahead with publishing JEnsembl on Central we will have to either
> >
> > 1. ignore Central's recommendations and include the reference to the biojava repository (if they let us get away with that)
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2. upload biojava3-core to Central  ourselves, as an external dependency
> >
> > (see https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Uploading+3rd-party+Artifacts+to+Maven+Central).
> >
> > this would involve bundling up and signing the pom/binary/source and javdoc artifacts and uploading through Sonatype.
> > (NB biojava yourself wouldn't be allowed to do this as you are not 3rd party!)
> >
> > My personal preference would be option 1, as option 2 seems a bit 'cheeky' aswell as redundant and smelly,
> > and personally I have no concerns about the reliability of the biojava repo in the medium term.
> >
> > However Maven central documents seem to be really heavily against this....
> >
> > what are your thought on this?
> >
> > The Maven etiquette on uploading 3rd party dependencies suggests that the first step is confirming whether you have any plans to upload to Central....
> >
> > cheers
> > trevor
> >
> >
> >
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