Thanks to everyone who answered my questions! Import scope seems to be doing exactly what I want.
Cheers Tom Tom Dunstan Senior Analyst/Programmer SACE Board of South Australia P +61 8 8372 7543 > -----Original Message----- > From: anders.g.ham...@gmail.com > [mailto:anders.g.ham...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anders Hammar > Sent: Thursday, 24 June 2010 6:09 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Activating profiles declared in parent pom > > The import solution that Stephen suggests is the way to go. > Kind of a pre-mixin support... > I use that a lot for defining different sets of depMgmt. Very > useful when you work with app servers of different versions > to make it possible to work and test against the exact same > version of dependencies that you will be using in runtime. > > /Anders > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:26, Dunstan, Tom (SACE Board) < > t...@saceboard.sa.gov.au> wrote: > > > > The best solution is to have either: > > > > > > 1. A project for spring 3 and a project for spring 2.5 > that defines > > > the dependencyManagement for each of the spring versions and then > > > use dependency scope import to pull in the spring 3 or the spring > > > 2.5 dependency version info (assumes that the same GAV > coords exist > > > in both versions of spring and only the > versions/exclusions change, > > > and or the transitive deps are pulling in the diffs) > > > > OK, I wasn't aware of scope import, I'll have a look. Thanks > > > > > 2. A project for spring 3 and a project for spring 2.5 > that pull in > > > all the deps for these and then just depend on either the > spring 3 > > > or the spring 2.5 version. > > > > This is pretty horrible. I just want a nice way to share > > dependencyManagement information between projects so that > it's defined > > somewhere central. This proposal actually changes the pulled in > > dependencies. > > > > Thanks for the suggestions > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
