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On 2/27/06, Ralph Goers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have been using Maven 1 for all our projects.  We have a master
> build.properties file that contains the version of every dependency we
> use throughout all of our projects.
>
> I am now attempting to build a project using maven 2 and was having some
> success. I then came across
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html.
> This looked great until I happened upon
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=turbine-maven-user&m=113656701325017&w=2
> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=turbine-maven-user&m=113656701325017&w=2>.
> Unfortunately, this is exactly the wrong behavior for anyone moving from
> version 1 to version 2.  Furthermore, unless the repository at ibiblio
> is going to be modified to remove the versions from the dependencies
> there then this is also the incorrect default behavior for anyone -
> unless everyone is forced to disable transitive dependencies.
>
> Without this control projects will very quickly have multiple versions
> of jars.
>
> So am I missing something?  Is there another configuration item that can
> be specified on a dependency in the dependencyManagement section to
> cause it to override child poms?
>
> Unfortunately, unless this is remedied we will be forced to stick with
> Maven 1 as the only alternative I can think of is to have our
> configuration management folks modify every pom in our local repository
> (our copy of ibiblio) to remove all the dependency versions.
>
> Ralph
>
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