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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-622:
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Three cheers for this!
Excellent improvement.
> Mahout dependencies are unified under dependency management in parent pom
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> Key: MAHOUT-622
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-622
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.4
> Reporter: Dmitriy Lyubimov
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: build, maven, pom
> Fix For: 0.5
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> As far as I understand, Maven encourages "best practice" of unified view of
> dependency versions specified under <dependencyManagement> usually in a
> parent pom, instead of under <dependencies>.
> In Mahout, this practice is only partially followed. Some dependencies have
> concrete versions under <dependencies> tag in submodule poms. Proposed change
> is to raid those and move version declarations into parent pom.
> This (as far as i understand) achieves 2 things:
> * Mahout assembly would include same versions for all modules thus ensuring
> runtime module dependencies are the same as compile time;
> * Somebody who uses Mahout as a dependency, could import Mahout dependencies
> using <scope>import</scope> spec thus inheriting Mahout's versions for shared
> dependencies.
> For most part the change would be nominal although in certain cases we'd need
> to sort out through cross-module conflicts (if any). Commons-math was one,
> not sure if there are more. If there are none, the changes would be rather
> mechanistic.
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