Yes, it is something that would be relatively easy to implement, and would be valuable. Ultimately I think it was a mistake to remove this capability. It helps the producers and has no affect on consumers. No brainer.
On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> Brett Porter >>> br...@apache.org >>> http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > cziege...@apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. -— Alan Perlis
