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Esri / geometry-api-java

The Esri Geometry API for Java enables developers to write custom applications for analysis of spatial data. This API is used in the Esri GIS Tools for Hadoop and other 3rd-party data processing solutions.
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Enable dependency caching for travis #283

Open Taher-Ghaleb opened 3 years ago

Taher-Ghaleb commented 3 years ago

Would be interested to know why maven dependencies haven't been cached on Travis. Thank you.

stolstov commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the PR. It is not obvious to me, what kind of issue this is causing and what you are trying to resolve. Could you clarify?

Taher-Ghaleb commented 3 years ago

Hi @stolstov. This helps speed up builds by caching maven dependencies onto the Travis CI server. So, instead of installing dependencies for every build, Travis will use the binaries of dependencies from the cache. Hope that clarifies the purpose of this PR. You may read more about it here. Thanks.

stolstov commented 3 years ago

@Taher-Ghaleb Thank you for the explanation. According to the build history on travis, the builds are a little over 4 minutes. I've added a lot of code here and never had a thought about travis build being an issue.

Out of curiosity do you have any numbers to that show things are significantly faster with your change?

Taher-Ghaleb commented 3 years ago

I see. It's because that this repository has only a few dependencies. Reduction of build speed could be significant when the repository has so many dependencies. I am still researching this on various repositories to explore how the improvement of caching differs from one repo to another. Thank you.