commons-codec is fixed. On 4/27/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. ant-optional has problems (can't decide if it belongs to the group > > ant or ant-optional). > > group is ant, artifact id is ant-optional. > > > Actually, as a general question, would it not be > > better to have all the commons downloads in the group commons, rather > > than duplicating the actual library name > > (commons-logging/commons-logging)? > > Definitely, but this is a historical issue. We will now be working > with projects to improve the quality of their exported metadata and > try and introduce some consistency. > > > 2. javassist 3.0 and commons-codec 1.3 have no pom.xml (and some others > > too, but I forgot to note them down) > > I'm working on commons-codec now. I'll note the others down. > > > 4. commons-configuration has all kinds of problems, with the > > mockobjects:mockobjects... dependency and a lot of others besides - > > apparently secondary dependencies - I can't be bothered to list them > > all, there are just too many (in the end, I just hacked the local > > pom.xml to get rid of them). > > Right, I've already spoken to them about that and it seems we may need > to just hack the POM in our copy as well for the moment. > > > Is there any way of providing an 'at-least' definition? For example, I > > could specify that my project required at least version 2.2 of xerces, > > and maven/ant would make sure I had that version or later. It would be > > great to avoid having 73 versions of xerces in the local repository just > > because developers don't upgrade to the latest dot version in their pom > > (or in their projects). If project owners really think there will be > > compatibility problems, perhaps they could specify a general version > > (for example xerces-1.*, xerces-2.*) or a range (xerces-1.4:xerces-1.6). > > This might reduce the flood of downloads that seems to accompany every > > maven project I build. > > We are planning that feature for the June release at the moment. > > > I don't want to be negative - I love this feature of maven and I am very > > happy that it is now available to us ant users. > > No problem. I realise our docs also don't explain things for non-Maven > users very well, so thanks for the feedback. > > - Brett >
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