Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Guillaume Bailleul <[email protected]> wrote: > * Is there a way to specify in pom that dependency are mandatory in a > java environment and not in an other ?
Not really. I guess the best thing would be to mark them as <scope>provided</scope>, and document that for Java 5 environments these dependencies need to be explicitly added. > * Is it a good idea to create an IOUtils class in Xmpbox to cut > dependency to commons-io ? There are no license problem, the choice is > between "duplicate code" and "create a dependency for next to nothing" As long as we're talking about just a relatively small piece of code (individual classes) that doesn't require too much maintenance, I think it's better to just copy the code. BR, Jukka Zitting
