I started some preliminary work on a grails plugin that could be used to
collect all of the grails dependencies so that they can be shared.
Along with this we would need to provide a mechanism to generate a war
file in grails which does not contain any of the common elements. I'd
like to check in what I have thus far. There is only one catch. Some
of the dependencies are Hibernate (LGPL). I've updated my poms with a
scope of provided for the hibernate dependencies. Is that sufficient so
that I can check the plugin into our SVN without any legal issues if
somebody installs it?
I'm also interested in additional thoughts on how to deal with the
hibernate dependencies. Should I consider using prerequisite instead of
dependency so that they must be installed (I'm not yet sure if a grails
application will work without hibernate but I suspect that it should)?
Comments appreciated. I'd really like to get this checked in under
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins so it doesn't get lost
even if it isn't quite ready for prime-time yet.
Joe
