sysutils/apache-mesos: Enable Java bindings request for review

[James Wright]

On 19/06/2020 22:37, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 07:14, James Wright
> <james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>     One specific area of concern is dealing with the Maven dependencies
>> fetched mid-way through the build phase. I thought I had a solution
>> utilizing
>> the maven dependency plugin "go-offline" goal in the fetch phase and
>> providing a skeleton POM to describe the dependencies required. However,
>> there
>> is a question mark over where these dependencies should be downloaded
>> during the fetch phase;
> One possible way to do this is to provide an offline maven repository
> that has all the required dependencies pre-fetched. The pre-warmed
> repo is static, and can be retrieved and extracted during the
> fetch-phase. Your maven build can then specify
> "-Dmaven.repo.local=${WRKDIR}/local-repo".
>
> The java/eclipse port uses this strategy.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>

I have seen that method used in some Java ports, but thought it would be 
better to
download the dependencies from the offical maven repo directly, rather 
than a
bundled tarball hosted on a personal/private repo which seems a less 
reliable source?