This is a custom maven repository created for convenience and developing speed
Maven Central is, unfortunately, a pain to setup and Nexus is too slow, up to 20s for a simple platform and 10m for a proper project, with several projects and up to tens pushes a day, all these overheads eat too much precious developing time, which, in my case, is quite scarce.
On the other side, Jitpack is, unfortunately, broken by design:
- they rewrite the POM, which sometimes it creates defective artifacts. This happens especially with variant-aware and platform-dependent projects, two big features quite hard to give up
- if you have a multi-module build the produce a non-sense catch-all artifact and provide wrong instructions
- you cannot easily use the coordinates you use for normal publishing
- when first requesting a version, it first has to be built, this can need significant time and lead to timeouts, if you just re-request the resolution might suddenly work as the build finished, but build tools also tend to cache resolution results so might not immediately retry
- when a build fails, you only get "dependency not found" and have to dig deep for the reason if you even consider looking for it
- it partly uses Git revisions as versions which results in broken odering, so any sane conflict resolution that uses the newer version if two different version are found in the transitive dependencies cannot work properly as the ordering of versions is wrong
- it cannot be indexed by IDEs or similar to provide a selection of what dependencies and versions are available
- it cannot be properly indexed by things like mvnrepository.com
Ps: the last two should be also valid for this repository solution, though
Same for the releases/snapshots of the different projects, they are also published on this repository,
just add to your build.gradle.kts
repositories {
maven("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kotlin-graphics/mary/master")
}All except ovr and bullet are actively maintained, some more some less.