Make available via maven repository

gigaSproule commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to make this available via a maven repository? e.g. bintray.com?

nguillaumin commented 8 years ago

It's certainly possible, I've published artifacts on Maven Central (where my preference would be) via Sonatype OSS, but there are a few difficulties:

It's just a fork of the original project, so they should be the one publishing it
Not sure what coordinates to publish that under:
- jflac:jflac would be consistent with the POM but I suspect it would not be accepted by Sonatype / Central as it needs to be a reverse package name or domain name.
- org.kc7bf.jflac:jflacwould be consistent with the package name, but a bit cryptic and I don't really own this package, it's from the original authors
- net.sourceforge.jflac:jflacwould be consistent with the original project, but at the same time the package would not be built from their sources but mine which would be confusing
- Something like com.github.nguillaumin:jflac would be consistent with this project location, but not very discoverable, and may confuse people if the original authors end up publishing it as well
Possibly rename the package org.jflac then publish it under this name, but that would feel like stealing it from the original authors so I'd need their approval.

Happy to hear suggestions?

So to sum up, I'd prefer that the version that is published is an "official" one, either published by the jFLAC project, or if they're happy to make this project the official one.

I'll try to get in touch with them to ask their opinion.

nguillaumin commented 8 years ago

Posted on their ML: https://sourceforge.net/p/jflac/mailman/message/35300318/

gigaSproule commented 8 years ago

I didn't realise this was a fork of the original project. But I totally agree that the original guys should have a say in this first. If they're not willing to take this forward, then I would say go with org.jflac as that seems to be the cleanest.

If they aren't willing to take this further, then I can't see what more we can do than to make them aware.

As for bintray vs Sonatype, bintray was just the first that came to mind, not a preference of one over the other.

nguillaumin commented 8 years ago

Agreed. I think there's little chance they'll respond to my message, since the ML have been dead since 2012 or something, but we'll see.

nguillaumin commented 8 years ago

There you go: http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cjflac

nguillaumin / jflac

Make available via maven repository #7