So if you have type=jar then dependencies of that artifact are transitive. What I suspect was intended was to introduce a new packaging type (i.e. jarjar) that was added to the classpath but does not pull in dependencies to indicate a jar with its dependencies included...
At least that is what my gut tells me might have been the reason... no clue if it actually is the reason however! On 8 September 2015 at 16:29, Timo <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone? If nobody knows what the comment is for, I vote to remove it, > if I may. I'm sure I'm not the only one being confused about it. > > 2015-09-03 12:59 GMT+02:00 Timo <[email protected]>: > > Thanks for the insight! I guess we'll have to hope for more info from > > Brett. Since the TODO is obviously over 10 years old, maybe it should > > be removed so as not to confuse users. > > > > Timo > > > > > > 2015-09-02 0:44 GMT+02:00 Wayne Fay <[email protected]>: > >> SVN says Brett posted that file (over 10 yrs ago), so maybe he can tell > us more: > >> > >> "Added Mon Apr 18 07:07:58 2005 UTC (10 years, 4 months ago) by brett" > >> > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/plugins/tags/maven-assembly-plugin-2.5.5/src/main/resources/assemblies/jar-with-dependencies.xml?view=log > >> > >> I scanned quickly and found some files in the JarJar project you > >> linked to that date back to Aug 2004, so I suspect that is what he is > >> talking about, but can't really be certain... > >> > >> Wayne > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Timo <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hello everyone, > >>> > >>> a question on Stack Overflow made me curious about the following line > >>> in the jar-with-dependencies example descriptor file > >>> ( > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor-refs.html#jar-with-dependencies > ): > >>> > >>> <!-- TODO: a jarjar format would be better --> > >>> > >>> What does this mean? Is it refering to jarjar > >>> (https://code.google.com/p/jarjar/) or to something like what the > >>> Spring Boot Maven plugin does? > >>> > >>> Thanks for any insight! > >>> Timo > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
