> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manfred Moser 
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 0:24
> To: Maven Developers List
> Subject: Re: Request for review and comment 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5167
> 
> On 11-09-17 08:55 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Manfred Moser
> >> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 23:38
> >> To: dev@maven.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Request for review and comment
> >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5167
> >>

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> >> Cludging something into Maven itself feels wrong to me.
> > What part of the patch is cludgy, I would like to fix it.
> >
> 
> The patch by itself might not be but in my feeling it goes 
> against the general design of Maven and might have problems 
> associated to it in various use cases beyond your specific example
> 
> Taking on the patch means providing documentation for it and 
> support into the future and around use cases others come up 
> with together with plugins and so on. At a minimum I would 
> suggest to have that all done as well as some IT tests around it.

Thank you. I have been struggling on the tests aspect, do you have any
recommendations? I will create better documentation too.

> 
> I can see this feature being used by a lot of people coming 
> from manual dependency management and never actually getting 
> the benefits of Maven due to being stuck with this approach 
> since that is how they started.

Agreed, I will try to show how to leverage maven in the maven way too (prevent
anti-patterns)

-Jason

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