2011/11/8 David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com>:
> I've run into this problem in 3 or 4 situations and the only practical 
> solution is to individually list the dependencies with the extra info in the 
> plugin configurations.  I don't really understand the mindset that only the 
> information needed for some bits of well-known maven can be associated with 
> dependencies, and all other uses should just duplicate large swathes of maven 
> configuration to be able to add a couple bits of info per dependency.   My 
> impression is that aether takes a more inclusive view of dependency 
> properties.


So is this something we could implement in Maven (easily)?

Carsten

>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Brett Porter wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/11/2011, at 8:15 AM, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, we were using that approach for years now and it turned out to be
>>> too error prone as you have to keep the plugin configuration and the
>>> dependency list in sync. It doesn't sound like a hard task first, but
>>> in our case it caused trouble many times. That's why we would like to
>>> have a single point of information.
>>
>> So, wildcards or excludes lists don't help with the sync task? There's no 
>> convention that can be applied (e.g. all dependencies of a certain type, or 
>> the same group ID as the project)?
>>
>> How would you handle transitive dependencies?
>>
>> - Brett
>>
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>> Brett Porter
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>> http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
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