Allow remote repository to be located via non-http URI

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/02/2012 23:16, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> Looks okay.   It would be good to add a test to verify the repository 
> API before and after adding jmod files (something like 
> _RemoteRepository.java but specific for file-system based repository)
>
There's a test in the patch that installs modules from a file based 
repository but I agreed we could do more. If it's okay with you I push 
the current patch and put it on my ToDo list to change the repository 
tests to exercise both file and http repositories.

-Alan.