Re: [ANN] Apache Maven quarterly report

2015-02-04 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
good idea here it is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9116 I already summarised what we've done And I'll update on next steps Of course, when we're ready to plan real migration, we'll make a public announcement :) Regards, Hervé Le lundi 2 février 2015 15:38:09 James Green a écrit

Re: Best practice for optional dependencies?

2015-02-04 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi Mark, I'm working on a project which has an optional transitive dependency. That is: we depend on someone else's artifact (let's call it A), which itself depends *in some circumstances* on a third artifact (from a third source) which I'll call B. That is: if you never trigger a certain

Re: Best practice for optional dependencies?

2015-02-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
Why not just mock the classes and have the mock classes take the appropriate actions when they are called by mistake. Seems easier to manage and you just provide the right jar at run-time as part of the install or deploy. The developers don't have to worry about dependencies and maven works