[ImageJ-devel] Speeding up Maven downloads using the ImageJ public mirror

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Curtis,

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Dscho and everyone,
> 
> > It is a pity that we cannot configure the mirror from the pom-scijava
> > parent (which would have relieved every developer from having to
> > configure the *exact* *same* thing on their computers), but at least
> > it is easy enough.
> 
> For what it's worth, what we *can* do is switch pom-scijava to use the
> ImageJ "public" group (http://maven.imagej.net/content/groups/public) as
> the sole repository.

Good point!

> Until recently, our Nexus was also misconfigured to not do proper
> bookkeeping: it was not updating its indices or emptying its trash. Now
> that I have things set up correctly, everything is kept up to date, and
> the mirror feature Johannes mentioned works for developers who care to
> configure it in their ~/.m2/settings.xml.

Yep, and I can testify that it works like a charm.

Ciao,
Dscho