Dan, What you are talking about is transitive dependencies and its been on the TODO list for quite a while. I think it will start to materialise reasonably soon.
I believe you can inspect the JAR manfiest Class-Path for a list of dependant JARs? - Brett -- Brett Porter Team Leader, Core Systems f2 network ~ everything essential > -----Original Message----- > From: Washusen, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 2:16 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: External Library dependencies within a project > > > Thanks for the responses guys... > I wouldn't say that I want to hide the dependencies, I just > want an easy way of figuring out what a library depends on. > It would be nice if the project.xml for a dependency was > published along side the jar file (I notice there are poms > directories on ibiblio but they don't seem to contain > anything). I noticed that when you download a plug-in it > heads off and downloads jar files it depends on... I was > wondering if there could be something similar for the jar > files... Cheers, Dan
