The idea is to be able to have a dependency on a POM, and all the dependencies of that POM are 'inherited' for your project.
For this to be workable, we need many more POMs to be deployed. See http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/plexus/poms/ for an example. As part of the repository audit, I've got a whole heap of projects that we can create POMs for, from the repository audit file. See http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/reference/plugins/repository/tasks.html for details about what's happening there. Creating these directories and files is item 2 & 3 for me. Item 1 I've delegated to Jason already. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au "Age Mooy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/03/2003 09:11:52 AM: > Hi, > > Jason has mentioned the idea of a POM repository a few times on this > list. I don't know exactly what he proposes to do with it but I have > also been thinking about something like that lately. > > I have built quite a lot of Turbine 2.x/Torque webapps the last few > months and when writing the project.xml for these projects, I keep > running into the same problem. For each new webapp project I have to > manually copy all the dependencies from the turbine-2 and db-torque > project descriptors. If I upgrade from Turbine 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 or 2.3, I > have to check the Turbine project.xml to see if any of the dependencies > changed and make the relevant corrections in my own project.xml > > Things would be a lot simpler if I could just say something like this: > > <dependencies> > <dependency ref="turbine-2.2.0"/> > <dependency ref="torque-3.0.0"/> > <dependencies> > > and Maven would lookup the relevant dependencies in a (local/remote) POM > repository somehow. > > Is this what the proposed POM repository would be used for ? If not, how > about implementing something like this ? > > Age > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
