Hello,
Somewhere along the way the name element for the dependency element was removed
from the project descriptor. This is good.
There is a need to describe dependencies though. Remember the case:
<dependency>
<name>Java Secure Socket Extension</name>
<type>required</type>
<version>1.02</version>
<jar>jsse.jar</jar>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<name>Java Secure Socket Extension</name>
<type>required</type>
<version>1.02</version>
<jar>jnet.jar</jar>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<name>Java Secure Socket Extension</name>
<type>required</type>
<version>1.02</version>
<jar>jcert.jar</jar>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
( I know the above won't work now.)
The three jars all belong to the same dist.
I would like the option to :
1. Give them an optional description
2. optionally combine them under one dependency with multiple jar elements. This
accounts for some distributions consisting of multiple jars.
So instead of:
<dependency>
<description>Java Secure Socket Extensions</description>
<id>jcert</id>
<version>1.02</version>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<description>Java Secure Socket Extensions</description>
<id>jsse</id>
<version>1.02</version>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<description>Java Secure Socket Extensions</description>
<id>jnet</id>
<version>1.02</version>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
The new element would look like:
<dependency>
<description>Java Secure Socket Extensions</description>
<ids>
<id>jcert</id>
<id>jnet</id>
<id>jsse</id>
</id>
<version>1.02</version>
<url>http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html</url>
</dependency>
I brought this up before, but thought I would revisit the latest thinking as the
project descriptor keeps changing.
-Peter
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