Hi,
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:16 PM Hartmut Goebel
<h.goebel(a)crazy-compilers.com> wrote:
I tried to use the "prefixes" (according the the Xmvn
configuration reference [1]) as shown below. But the Xmvn does not even try to access
these prefixes. Can somebody explain why, please?
[...]
I learned that I need to define <metadataRepositories>, which
worked. But I'm wondering what are the <prefixes> then used for and how to test
whether my set-up is correct.
Prefixes and metadataRepositories are used for locating metadata in
different formats. The former ones are for the old format (JPackage
"depmaps") while the latter are for "new metadata" that is specific
to
XMvn. Current versions of XMvn don't support depmaps any longer, so
prefixes are not used. In configuration file format I kept prefixes
for backwards-compatibility, so that trying to parse some old config
files wouldn't lead to parse errors. But I think now it's time to
remove prefixes altogether.
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Mikolaj Izdebski