On 2025/04/18 07:36:25 Olivier Cailloux wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have read https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5567 but did not
> manage to understand whether the issue has supposedly been solved or
> even whether it is consensual that it should be solved. One person (who
> seems to be, or was at the time, a Maven developer?) seems to argue
> that it should, but other voices seem to be opposed to it.
> 
> I just lost hours trying to understand why my (zip) dependency was not
> reachable from my code, then thought that my IDE was at fault, and
> finally realized that Maven itself does not seem to include zip types
> in the classpath. 
> 
> I want to raise my support for fixing this: there is clearly a natural
> expectation for this to work, considering that java accepts zip files
> as dependencies.

I've tried once to make it happen years ago, but people weren't ready for that. 
According to the Java spec ZIPs are totally valid for the classpath, so a Maven 
problem. In my opinion that artifact handler should be part fo Maven 4.

M

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