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
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
On 11/17/06, Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry :-). That's exactly the purpose. I'll add a comment now.
I saw the commit before the thread, so commented there.
Marking a dependency 'optional' excludes it from transitive dependency
resolution, nothing more. It should still be on
