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Chris Caspanello commented on MNG-7005:
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@[~michael-o] - I'm not suggesting we get rid of the typical `<dependency>`
block; that can still be used to exclude certain transitivie dependencies.
I'm veiewing the `<gav>` tag as a simple shortcut.
Optionally if you want to exclude all tranitive dependencies maybe you could
add something like this
<gav transitives="false">myGruop:myArtifact:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</gav>
It is still shorter and easier to read than
<dependency>
<groupId>myGroup</groupId>
<artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>*</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
> Support Gradle style GAV form for dependencies
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-7005
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7005
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Chris Caspanello
> Priority: Major
>
>
> I'm currently migrating a project from Gradle to Maven. One thing that makes
> pom files so large is the typical 5 lines for a dependnecy. It would be nice
> to be able to define the dependency similar to Gradle
> Instead of :
> {code:java}
> <dependencies>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
> <artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId>
> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>anotherGroup</groupId>
> <artifactId>anotherArtifact</artifactId>
> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>
> </dependencies>{code}
>
>
> It would be less verbose to use a <gav> block like this:
>
> {code:java}
> <dependencies>
> <gav>myGruop:myArtifact:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</gav>
> <gav>anotherGroup:anotherArtifact:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</gav>
> </dependencies>
> {code}
>
> I think an improvement like this would make Maven less verbose; one of the
> things that is attractive about Gradle.
> I may be over simplifying this; but under the covers we'd just split the gav
> block on the semi colon and popoulate the existing dependency model.
>
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