There is a page that highlights "suggested names for Sun Jars", I
don't really see why we couldn't just extend that. It could even be
done by hand for now for those common ones. Alternatively, it sounds
like a great contribution project for someone to take up!
Eric
On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Allison, Bob wrote:
I agree that you would need to add dependencies manually, but you have
to do that anyway so that is not an additional burden. Having the
minimal POM generated would probably eliminate about 75% of the POM
problems.
The BEST way for this to happen is to have the VENDOR ship a POM with
its libraries. Since that is not likely to ever happen, we will just
need to muddle along. I would not want to decide within the Maven
community on "official" group and artifact IDs because that starts to
become a nightmare. You need to create a registry for the IDs, you
need
someone to maintain the registry, you need some sort of approval
process
to add entries to the registry, etc. The only libraries where this
might start to make some sense is ones that are required to make
plugins
work. In this case, though, I would prefer that the plugin author
documents the need to download the jar, where to find it, and how to
install it locally so that the plugin works.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 09:55
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: Installing Commercial Jars and missing POM XML files
From: "Allison, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A much better choice would be to allow install:install-file to
optionally create a POM for the file it is installing.
It could create the minimal one that I'm doing manually now, but it
couldn't
know about the dependencies. In addition, it would be nice to
"officially"
decide on group and artifact IDs for these things, as well as version
numbers (IBM tends to ship .jar files with no manifest so it's hard to
tell
what you've got.)
--
Wendy
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