Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread Kenney Westerhof
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mykel Alvis wrote: Total now $0.04: I totally agree, but since Maven 2 already uses directories with the version in it's name, it should be possible to store the jar itself without a version in it's name. The path to the jar already has it's version in it, so you can still

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread Brett Porter
On 4/22/05, Kenney Westerhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mykel Alvis wrote: Total now $0.04: I totally agree, but since Maven 2 already uses directories with the version in it's name, it should be possible to store the jar itself without a version in it's name. The path

RE: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread Jim Mochel
Just chiming in for the first time since I started using Maven 1 (Other than asking new user questions). I have had a love/hate relationship with Maven ever since I started using it on a large project integrating the output of 4 different development groups. One of the things that has

RE: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread Ilyevsky, Leonid (Equity Trading)
To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names. On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:36 +0200, Kenney Westerhof wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mykel Alvis wrote: Total now $0.04: I totally agree, but since Maven 2 already uses directories with the version in it's

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread Craig S . Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:19, Mykel Alvis wrote: If the manner of accessing the repository were abstracted, one might be able to write a repository manager that would retrieve dependencies arbitrarily from a service rather than from the filesystem. For

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread John Casey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig S.Cottingham wrote: On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:19, Mykel Alvis wrote: If the manner of accessing the repository were abstracted, one might be able to write a repository manager that would retrieve dependencies arbitrarily from a service

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-22 Thread John Casey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll add my $0.02: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/jdcasey/archives/001053_dependencies_to_version_or_not_to_version.html Cheers, - -john Jason van Zyl wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:36 +0200, Kenney Westerhof wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mykel

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-21 Thread Brett Porter
On 4/22/05, Ilyevsky, Leonid (Equity Trading) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that if third party jar file name does not comply with maven naming convention, the only way is to rename it. The dependency element always requires version number, and the jar tag (supposed to take explicit file

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-21 Thread Jamie Bisotti
I find it hard to believe the JAR would never change, so some version is appropriate :) Just because the contents of a JAR file change, the name does not have too. My company, for whatever reason, chooses not to include any kind of version info in the JAR's name. I don't mean this to sound

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-21 Thread Brett Porter
On 4/22/05, Jamie Bisotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because the contents of a JAR file change, the name does not have too. My company, for whatever reason, chooses not to include any kind of version info in the JAR's name. I don't mean this to sound rude, or come off like an ass, but...

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-21 Thread Mykel Alvis
My $0.02 I don't think it's rude at all. It's a completely valid point, on the presumption that you're not held to being responsible deterministically reproducing the results of a given build. A co-worker of mine shares that same opinion and it's an oft-discussed issue with regard to our

Re: Maven2: dependencies with non-conformant file names.

2005-04-21 Thread Mykel Alvis
Ha! Should've waited until Shakiyama Porter had his say. Could've saved myself some typing. :)