actually, just to take an example, the maven plugin pom editor silently eliminates all xml comments (this made disappear the xml-comment based implementation of a couple of projects here)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:22:57 -0800, Michal Maczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Porter wrote: > > > > > That said, there will be the ability to make changes for 1.1, so we > > should decide whether it is really needed. > > > > You can use a property now to get this happening - I have no problem > > with that. > > > > I don't believe a <comment> element under a dependency is really > > necessary. The use cases I see are: > > - describe why this project has such a dependency > > - describe what the dependency is > > > > The first can be done with an inline XML comment, and I don't see the > > value of automatically including it on the site. > > The second will be solved properly by transitive dependencies, where > > you read the <description/> of the dependency's project. > > > > So I don't see the need to add the element myself, and also there are > > the reasons against making dependency different to the project that > > I've listed earlier (or in another thread recently, I'm not sure). > > > I don't think that XML comments are sufficient here. > > First of all I'd like to see those comments propagated to documenatation > (website, pdf etc) sometimes they are quite important... > But there are purely technical reasons against XML comments. > We are trying to make POM independent from XML representation - it can > be kept for example in the database. > We will have tools which will operate on POMs and change some values in > them and serialize them back to XML files. > This will be a case for example for a tool which will help to make releases. > Ideally after all those operations any information kept in POM which is > not changed should be left untouched. > To make it possible we should stay away from any xml-ish stuff > (comments, entities etc) > > regards > > Michal > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nudzisz sie? Zagraj sobie! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f183d > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
