Hi Jason, Jason van Zyl wrote on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:22 AM:
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 19:23, Tim Reilly wrote: >> Does anyone know, or can anyone comment on whether external xml >> entities in the POM (particularly for dependencies) will continue to >> work or be supported in future versions (maven-2, etc)? > > You won't need them and the plexus and geronimo builds will > be proof of that. Today was infact the first day a build > using arbitrary recursive inheritance and transitive > dependencies occurred. Michal finished checking in his wagon > integration into m2, I tweaked it a bit and presto! A new level of > manageability. > > I really, really, really don't want to promote the use of > entities. I've kept my mouth shut because they were really > the only way to work around some congenital problems in m1. > m2 is a ways off and there will be some surveys for users and > one of questions will be regarding the use of entities. No > one will probably want to use them anyway with m2. My basic concern was about the consistent versions in the dependencies. Say, have a multiproject with ~50 subprojects and ~10 of them use e.g. xstream. Using entities I change currently only one single line in one file to upgrade all of this 10 subprojects for a new xstream version and does not have to care about, if possibly someone added a xstream dependency to another subproject I currently do not know. Without entities I have in M1 to make all subprojects dependend of XStream to achieve the same ... what about M2? Regards, J�rg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
