Maybe we need to rework how this functionality works. It should be essentially a symlink with a warning message within the resolver so they both resolve to the same artifact.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:58 AM Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > In real practice it doesn't work well though, as someone already brought > up. It can result in duplication of libraries on the class path (the same > library under different groupId). > > /Anders (mobile) > > Den ons 19 feb. 2020 14:52Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> > skrev: > > > I set up some simple projects and tested this manually. As best I can > > determine, relocation does work as one would hope, at least in Maven > > and M2E. (No idea about Gradle or Ivy.) > > > > The documentation should probably be rewritten because it assumes you > > can change published pom.xml files, which isn't true on Maven central. > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:36 PM Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> > > wrote: > > > > > > you can test with > > > https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ant/ant/1.7.0/ant-1.7.0.pom > > > > https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/xml/jaxrpc/1.1/jaxrpc-1.1.pom > > > > > > https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/xml/jaxb-api/1.0.1/jaxb-api-1.0.1.pom > > > > > > testing relocation was on my todo list for years, but I never really > test > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Hervé > > > > > > Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 15:18:17 CET Elliotte Rusty Harold a > écrit : > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:35 AM <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > see: > > > > > - > > > > > > > > http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.6.3/maven-model/maven.html#class_relocation > > > > > - https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-relocation.html > > > > > > > > The guide to relocation seems to assume a lot more access and control > > > > to the repo than is the case with public repositories like Maven > > > > Central. I'm not sure it's actually possible to follow these steps > > > > today, though perhaps that could be changed. > > > > > > > > I'd still like to see the code in the repo that implements support > for > > > > this or, better yet, a sample project that demonstrates relocation is > > > > possible. > > > > > > > > If this does work, I can see a lot of use cases for it, but I'm > > > > currently working with the assumption it is not. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > Elliotte Rusty Harold > > elh...@ibiblio.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure.
