Hi Sander & Mark, I've submitted a pull request: https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/61. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you.
Best, John Lin 林自均 <[email protected]> 於 2019年1月10日 週四 下午11:08寫道： > Hi Mark, > > Thank you for your feedback. I will try to include your 3 reasons in my > pull request. They are very clear and useful to me. > > Best, > John Lin > > Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> 於 2019年1月10日 週四 下午10:26寫道： > >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: >> > I try always to declare all direct dependencies, regardless of whether >> > they are also transitive dependencies (today). >> > >> > One reason for this is that it improves the documentation of the >> > project. Not only does it provide useful information to reporting >> > tools driven by Maven, but you can learn useful things about a project >> > by just reading the POM. >> > >> > Another reason is that I'm uncomfortable relying on the inclusion of >> > direct dependencies by happenstance. An upgraded dependency, which >> > *was* pulling in another direct dependency but does no more, can break >> > the build in a way that is quite avoidable. >> >> A third reason is that it gives you a chance to specify what versions >> of your dependencies are used, instead of letting other dependencies >> set (and change!) those versions. Use with caution: there may be >> strong reasons for those other dependencies to require the versions >> that they do. >> >> If you have an assembly composed from multiple complex projects, you >> may be able to harmonize versions of shared dependencies instead of >> ending up with multiple versions of the same artifact and wondering >> which one is used. >> >> -- >> Mark H. Wood >> Lead Technology Analyst >> >> University Library >> Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis >> 755 W. Michigan Street >> Indianapolis, IN 46202 >> 317-274-0749 >> www.ulib.iupui.edu >> >
