Mercury Ant tasks – HowTo
mercury-ant-tasks is an Ant wrapper for Mercury functionality, that provides a lot of Mercury functionality inside ant scripts.
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Does Your Tool Depend on the Central Maven Repository?
Here are three quick notes for people who write tools which depend on the Central Maven Repository. Adhering to these standards will help to preserve the free, public resource that millions of Maven users depend on. We think it is great that people are interacting with the repository, but we want to make sure that we’re all doing so in a responsible manner that conserves bandwidth.
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Introducing Byldan: A .NET Version of Maven
If you are a .NET developer and like the Maven concept but don’t want to install Maven and Java on your system, Byldan is a project definitely worth looking into. Last year, Byldan started as an experimental, Mavenish build system written in C# but is now the basis for doing a full Maven port to .NET.
At the time I started Byldan, I had been working on NMaven for more than a year and had encountered a lot of issues of getting Maven to play nice with NMaven. I wanted to see what a build system might look like in pure .NET.
Help Maintain Central: Install a Repository Manager
The Central Maven Repository is a public resource essential to the day to day work routines for millions of developers. It is a public resource that has transformed the way that open source communities distribute software artifacts, and we continue to see repository use increase over time. Central Maven Repository is currently serving around 30 TB to hundreds of thousands of clients every single month, and the traffic levels on central are steadily increasing. The Central Maven repository regularly breaks four million requests in a day. It is massive, and massively important. Sonatype employees play a large role in helping to maintain this public resource, and so do you.
While this continued growth is great, we’re starting to have some issues with edge-case usage patterns of the Central repository. In order to defend the availability of this essential public resource the team that maintains the Central Maven Repository strong suggests that you… (more…)
