On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 20:53 -0700, Wendy Smoak wrote: > On 11/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Author: skitching > > Date: Fri Nov 17 19:41:32 2006 > > New Revision: 476429 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=476429 > > Log: > > Add comments about unusual dependency-handling approach. > ... > > if we declare them optional then > > + - when JCL is *compiled* we get none of them in the classpath. > > Are you saying that if you mark the dependencies optional, you get > compilation errors? That doesn't sound right.
Well, that's exactly what happens. [INFO] Compilation failure /home/simon/apache/commons-svn/proper/logging/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/Log4JLogger.java:[23,24] package org.apache.log4j does not exist etc > > If you mark it optional, it will be excluded from transitive > dependency resolution when a project depends on commons-logging. But > it should be on the compile-time classpath. > That's what I'd like to see happen, but it doesn't appear to (using maven 2.0.4 on Linux). Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
