Yes, it exists in Maven 2.0.9+. Sorry, if the link wasn't clear enough. Have a look here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Importing_Dependencies
The import support is different that what the assimilate gives you. The one described above is for dep management, while the assimilate plugin are for actual dependencies. /Anders On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 17:41, David Hoffer <[email protected]> wrote: > That looks good. > > Just to be clear, in that link it seemed to be a discussion of what to > possibly add to maven...are you saying that is in maven now? Btw I use > 2.1.0. > > Also what do you think about http://code.google.com/p/assimilate/mentioned > in the bottom of this link? > > -Dave > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, you could use the "import" scope at the top level to import > dependency > > management defined in another pom (which could be the ones in D). > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Importing+Managed+Dependencies > > > > /Anders > > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 15:42, David Hoffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We have a large maven project where each component (or group of > > artifacts) > > > each uses dependencyManagement to control what versions are used and to > > > specify exclusions, etc. At an individual component level this works > > well. > > > > > > You can think of our project as being lots of new maven/components (A, > B, > > > C) > > > that act as a facade around a legacy component D...so D is at the > bottom > > of > > > the dependency graph. > > > > > > However we really need D's dependency management to be at the top level > > > too. That is, lots of changes happen at the legacy component D and we > > > don't > > > want to have to manually track dependency changes there and copy to the > > top > > > level. > > > > > > Is there a way in maven to say, at the top-level, use D's dependencies > > for > > > me too? If not, how hard would it be to write a plugin that does this? > > > > > >
