Hi, +1 on adding scope/kind/purpose to dependencies
Now that 1.0 has been released, I'd like to know what major improvements do you have in mind for future releases. Regards Carlos Sanchez A Coruņa, Spain Oness Project http://oness.sourceforge.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Maczka Michal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:10 AM > To: 'Maven Developers List' > Subject: RE: Plugins dependencies to fix > > My 2 cents: > Dependecy on maven is quite similar to dependecy on servletapi. > In both cases you need to have "spec" jar in order to compile > your code against it, but at the runtime the functionality > which is needed should be provided by environment. Servlet > SPEC even says "no" for bundling a jar containing servletapi > inside war files. > IMO ultimate solution for that problem is linked with > necessity of being able to distinguish scope/kind/purpose (we > don't have a good and official term for it yet) of the dependency. > Plugin's dependency on maven is compiletime only dependency > but it is not a runtime dependency. When plugin execution > environment (maven > :)) loads plugin it should load only all runtime dependencies. > IMO this is a generic and quite common problem and it would > be better to address it then to make some hacks for teaching > maven core not to download some arbitrary jars. > > Michal > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:00 AM > > To: 'Maven Developers List' > > Subject: RE: Plugins dependencies to fix > > > > > > Guys, > > > > I'm curious to know why you don't consider it a good idea to have a > > set of dependencies defined in mavenhome/lib for the plugins? The > > plugins are depending on Maven anyway. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: jeudi 15 juillet 2004 03:59 > > > To: Maven Developers List > > > Subject: Re: Plugins dependencies to fix > > > > > > Yep, I agree. Thanks for making the changes. > > > > > > - Brett > > > > > > Quoting Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:43:50 +1000, Brett Porter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Yep, and this version is now bundled in maven, so we > > could actually > > > remove > > > > the > > > > > xml tags from all the plugins if desired. > > > > > > > > I'd rather we didn't. > > > > > > > > I'd rather the plugins specify their dependencies regardless of > > > > whether they're shipped as part of maven or not. > > > > -- > > > > http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > > > > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > > > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
