Hi Phillip, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'd like to take a stab at adding support for Maven to be able to mediate > dependency conflicts using "highest version" strategy rather than "nearest > definition". > > I'll be happy if anyone can point me in the right direction on which > source > files I'll need to modify, and any other guidance. Also, how long do you > expect such a task would take for a competent developer? > > Finally, I'm curious to know what are the chances of a patch being > accepted > when I'm done? I'll of course do it in such a way that the default > remains "nearest definition", and this new strategy has to be enabled with > a setting in settings.xml or something. Can you also tell, why you really want to do this? If you really want "predictability", then use a shared parent, declare all involved dependencies there in a dependencyManagement section and declare your direct dependencies without any version. This way you can specify any version explicitly. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
