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ERDDAP / erddap

ERDDAP is a scientific data server that gives users a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. ERDDAP is a Free and Open Source (Apache and Apache-like) Java Servlet from NOAA NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division (ERD).
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Remove large files from the repo, add support to maven to download them #101

Closed ChrisJohnNOAA closed 1 year ago

ChrisJohnNOAA commented 1 year ago

The general approach is that maven will manage code dependencies (including copying them to the WEB-INF/lib directory to minimize differences from existing workflows). Maven is also used to download other needed files like those in the WEB-INF/ref directory.

This means these large files no longer need to be in the ERDDAP repo, but with maven there is still file versioning available.

This does add a step for developers to load the dependencies using maven, but that is a pretty standard step for most large software projects.

ChrisJohnNOAA commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the comments. I've addressed those changes and made some fixes that were needed to make the process work smoothly when starting from a new clone of the repo as well as updated the setup.html documentation.