Re: [cbi-dev] An "Eclipse central repository"

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/04/2012 06:26 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:

This won't work because P2 (and OSGi in general) use dependency version
ranges almost exclusively, where vast majority of Maven projects use
specific dependency versions. Single P2 repository will result in
virtually unpredictable installation and/or build results as new
versions are deployed to the repository.

Except if people do specify which specific version they want and use the slicer mode. The idea is more to have a *backup and archive* repository rather to have an optimized one. It may not be recommended to use it to create your product, but it is very safe to know that there is a place where you can find almost anything.

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