We use the dependency:unpack to get hold on a couple of WSDL files packaged within a WAR (or jar, zip). These WSDLs the are the input to generate the client site code with jaxws-m-p - coping these files into our repo is definitely nothing we want to do and accessing these files nine via http is not an option either. Domi
On 12.04.2014, at 18:38, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > On Apr 12, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I'm much more here. For example, I might have 250,000 words of text >> annotated for training a statistical model. I have a maven build that >> needs to grab unpack that pile into some location, run a plugin that >> performs some data normalization, and then feed the location into a >> maven plugin of mine that trains the model. > > This definitively seems like the wrong place to do this, in the build system. > This is not a build time activity, it seems like part of an ETL flow of a > data acquisition application. > >> I guess I could model this >> as dependencies, if the scope system allowed me to manage all of this >> at a safe distance from the classpath, but as it is it works fine as >> 'putting together a bunch of files.' > > The question is why would you model something like this at all in Maven. Just > because you might be able to doesn't mean you should. You can, but your > specific use case doesn't seem appropriate for a build system. > >> >>> >>> >>>> I think that Hervé is trying to help me by suggesting that I shouldn't >>>> need the dependency: that just calling out the coordinates to >>>> something like :unpack should result in resolution via injection. >>>> >>>> Then what changes? >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> Jason van Zyl >>> Founder, Apache Maven >>> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >>> http://twitter.com/takari_io >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to >>> act in accordance with your thinking. >>> >>> -- Johann von Goethe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track > of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget > the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful > groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a > clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as > signs of decline and decay. > > -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
