Thanks Brian.

Brian E. Fox wrote:
> Just exclude the api jar. I had to do this in maven-dependency and I
> setup an enforcer rule to alert me if the jar creeps back in so I can
> stamp it out. Take a look at the mdep pom to see.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Lundberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 3:23 PM
> To: Maven Developers List
> Subject: Re: How to handle plexus-container-default and
> plexus-components-api dependencies in a shared component?
> 
> Jason van Zyl wrote:
>> I have eliminated the second JAR from newer versions of Plexus, it was
> a
>> complete disaster separating the two and caused so many problems.
> 
> Yes, I know the story.
> 
>> For your case below can you not used the older version of plexus that
>> was a single JAR? The newer versions of plexus are again a single JAR,
>> but some plexus-utils coupling might block you.
> 
> That's what I'm asking about. Do I need to exclude the transient
> dependencies and add my own version - the old single-jar alpha-9
> version. It's not clear to me under which circumstances having dual jars
> in the class path causes problems.
> 
>> Or (gasp), just write the 30 lines of code to JAR up what you need and
>> toss the whole maven-archive/plexus-archiver chain. I just found chain
>> to be a mess as plexus-archiver is just way too complicated and
>> incredibly slow.
> 
> I'm sure that could be done, haven't even looked at what is in
> plexus-archiver. But all I'm really trying to do here are some release
> preparations and add documentation, not rewrite the code.
> 
>> On 28 Dec 07, at 9:55 AM 28 Dec 07, Dennis Lundberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm going through the dependencies for shared/maven-archiver. Is a
>>> shared component in danger of dragging in a wrong version of
>>> plexus-container-default or plexus-components-api?
>>>
>>> The MavenArchiver class is not a plexus component itself, it doesn't
> use
>>> plexus directly - only through its dependencies.
>>>
>>> Here's the current output of 'mvn dependency:tree':
>>>
>>> [INFO] [dependency:tree]
>>> [INFO] org.apache.maven:maven-archiver:jar:2.3-SNAPSHOT
>>> [INFO]    org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]    org.apache.maven:maven-model:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]    org.apache.maven:maven-project:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]       org.apache.maven:maven-profile:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]       org.apache.maven:maven-artifact-manager:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]         
>>> org.apache.maven:maven-repository-metadata:jar:2.0:compile
>>> [INFO]
>>> org.apache.maven.wagon:wagon-provider-api:jar:1.0-alpha-5:compile
>>> [INFO]    org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver:jar:1.0-alpha-9:compile
>>> [INFO]       org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-io:jar:1.0-alpha-1:compile
>>> [INFO]
>>> org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-api:jar:1.0-alpha-15:compile
>>> [INFO]
>>> org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-container-default:jar:1.0-alpha-8:compile
>>> [INFO]    org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:jar:1.4.9:compile
>>> [INFO]    junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:test
>>>
>>>
>>> As you can see we have these two chains of transitive dependencies:
>>> 1. plexus-archiver -> plexus-io -> plexus-component-api:1.0-alpha-15
>>> 2. plexus-archiver -> plexus-io ->
> plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-8
>>> Should I exclude plexus-component-api and plexus-container-default in
>>> the plexus-archiver dependency element in the pom of maven-archiver
> [1]?
>>> If the answer is yes, should I then add a dependency on the version
> that
>>> we want: plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-9 ?
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/shared/trunk/maven-archiver/pom.x
> ml
>>>
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>>> Dennis Lundberg
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> Jason van Zyl
>> Founder,  Apache Maven
>> jason at sonatype dot com
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will
>> elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will
> come
>> and sit softly on your shoulder ...
>>
>> -- Thoreau
>>
>>
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