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

[James Wright]

On 20/06/2020 02:03, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 12:39, James Wright
> <james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 20/06/2020 01:16, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 10:01, James Wright
>>> <james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Doing so violates the ports-build requirement that access to the 'Net
>>> is only permitted during the fetch-phase.
>> Not in this case, all dependencies are downloaded during the fetch phase
>> by invoking
>> maven dependency:go-offline goal to prefetch everything required into the
>> local repo before the build phase.
> Won't your distinfo file be amazingly large?

yeah :-( Although I don't understand how Rust/Cargo ports manage this, 
can we
not have something similiar for Java/Maven ports?