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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
