What does repository layout mean

maven, maven-3

Solution

The `<layout>` tag is there to allow you to use the `legacy` option to support the maven 1 repository layout. You can use it to handle fetching artifacts by configuring it in the `<repository>` tag, or you can use it with the deploy plugin to deploy to Maven 1 repos.

Problem

``` <repository> <id>oauth-maven-repo</id> <name>OAuth Maven repository</name> <url>http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/maven</url> <layout>default</layout> </repository> ``` What does repository layout mean, compared to setting snapshots / releases?

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