(copying to users list for the record) On 5/27/05, John Fallows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brett, > > I understand. What I'm asking for is for Maven2 to make the > "dependency resolver" API pluggable, so that we can configure our > projects to use a custom implementation of a common API, without > needing to compile a custom Maven2 build, and making it much easier to > uptake new Maven2 releases. > > Our corporate version control solution delivers the JARs along with > the source as a unified "view". Although the implementation is > different, you can think of it as though the JARs were checked in to > source control. > > Right now, we have a mixture of Makefiles and Ant build scripts that > reference these JARs using project-relative paths so that the builds > are self contained. > > We would need to replace the "dependency resolver" implementation to > map each [groupId, artifactId, version] to a project-relative path, > pointing at each "checked-in" JAR. We do not need automatic > transitive dependency resolution, nor automatic download of > dependencies. We would trigger build failure if a dependency in the > POM was not mapped locally. > > Kind Regards, > John Fallows. > > On 5/27/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you detail more about your custom solution, and what it does? > > > > As you'll see from our comments, because this does away with a whole > > lot of Maven's features what you'd be faced with is probably > > recompiling your own Maven distribution from source, with your own > > resolver implementation (it shouldn't require any changes to Maven's > > code, just the configuration). > > > > - Brett > > > > On 5/27/05, John Fallows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey Brett, > > > > > > I commented on the doc at > > > > > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Custom+Repository+or+Resolver+Implementations > > > > > > In short, we can live without transitive dependencies, since we want > > > to control every single dependency ourselves. > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > John Fallows. > > > > > >
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