On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:52 -0800, Craig McClanahan wrote:
> The pom.xml file for Commons Logging in the trunk has an "interesting"
> approach to declaring dependencies, based on the existence or non-existence
> of a file named "commons-logging-README.txt".  AFAICT, the purpose for this
> is to make the dependencies non-optional when you are building Commons
> Logging itself, but optional for downstream users.
> 
> Is that a correct understanding of the purpose?  If so, we should really
> document this in the pom.xml file, so others don't have to puzzle out the
> thinking.

Sorry :-). That's exactly the purpose. I'll add a comment now.



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