[BUILDR-288] Add Canonical Maven2 Repository by Default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Dependency management
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Spiewak
• Created: 19/Jun/09 20:22
• Updated: 22/Jun/11 10:10
• Resolved: 19/Sep/10 01:04

Description

Almost every buildfile I have ever created starts with the following line:

repositories.remote << 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2'

We already add the scala-tools.org repository to the list when 'buildr/scala' is required, so why not the official, canonical repository at maven.org? I think that new users especially would find this more intuitive. There is no real loss of flexibility since it is always possible to remove a repository from the array if it becomes necessary.