Hi,
I'm wondering how useful it would be to have "a" (one) comment on a dependency. Would you rather not have commenting be an attribute of (yes, indeed) a dependency, but also more-specifically of an exclusion, a scope designation, etc.? What would be some of the actual comments that you are thinking of here? Perhaps this would come to life a bit more with a few good examples. Sander. Sander Verhagen [ san...@sanderverhagen.net ] > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:45 > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Adding comments to dependencies in POM > > +1 > Gary > > -------- Original message -------- > From: James Green <james.mk.gr...@gmail.com> > Date: 04/17/2015 04:58 (GMT-08:00) > To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Adding comments to dependencies in POM > > [ Dragging up a really old topic. ] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5803 > > Incidentally I would vote against a different namespace as comments are > likely to be of use to readers of Maven POMs even if they are used for visual > purposes. > > > On 27 August 2014 at 12:03, Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I think it should be solved with a separate namespace, so the model > > parsing stays pure without metadata irrelevant for Maven. > > And it should already work right now, no need for the pom xsd to > > change, since the Maven pom-parser should ignore these kinds of > elements/attributes. > > > > Robert > > > > Op Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:15:00 +0200 schreef domi <d...@fortysix.ch>: > > > > > > +1 > >> I think this would be a good idea, let us know about the issue, so we > >> can vote on it. > >> Domi > >> > >> On 27.08.2014, at 09:12, James Green <james.mk.gr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> I have in the past wasted hours of effort trying to weed out > >>dependency > >>> issues where something has been added for reasons unknown. Removal > >>> leads to breakage. > >>> > >>> It would be helpful if, inside a POM, it were possible to add a > >>> comment element to a dependency. I realise this is possible as an > >>> XML comment, however having a POM field would let documentation > >>> engines record the comment. > >>> > >>> The same could be said for dependencies inside > dependencyManagement. > >>> > >>> It would of course have the side effect of auto completion within > >>> IDEs showing authors how to "officially" comment on the reason for > that work. > >>> > >>> An idea. > >>> > >>> James > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > >
