dcache project products are not published in maven central

[jcalcote]

We've been using the same version of oncrpc4j for some time now. Because of this, we've had the oncrpc4j dependencies we use cached in our local artifact server. Yesterday I went to https://mvnrepository.com/repos/central to find the latest version - the pom file insert for using version 3.3.2 are shown there as:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.dcache/oncrpc4j-core -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.dcache</groupId>
    <artifactId>oncrpc4j-core</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.2</version>
</dependency>

However, there is (currently) no dcache directory under https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/ at maven central. There is also no dcache directory under https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/.

This must be an oversight. I can build oncrpc4j-core locally and upload the products to my artifact server, but I don't think you intend for users to do this, right?

[jcalcote]

AH! I just noticed this note at maven central:

Why does dcache use its own custom repository? Why not use the common central repos?

[jcalcote]

Ok - so the problem is that 3.3.2 is being advertised as the latest version of the oncrpc4j-core module, but that version is not in your own repository - only 3.3.1 is available. Someone just forgot to upload it.

[kofemann]

Usually, we mirror all external dependencies to a local one to able ti build even if central is not available or artifact is removed (yeah we have seen this). Thus, there was ni real need to push to maven central, though we have an account there. I will try to find some time to change that.

[kofemann]

Actually, the packages are available on our repo:

https://download.dcache.org/nexus/#browse/browse:releases:org%2Fdcache%2Foncrpc4j-core%2F3.3.2

[jcalcote]

Thanks everyone.