It's possible right now, although not a good idea
See http://jroller.com/page/carlossg?entry=optional_dependencies_in_maven
On 5/22/06, Alexandre Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At the moment, it's not doable out of the box but there have been
countless discussions about some sort of features like this on this
list. So expect some improvements in this area to make it in Maven
2.1. On the other hand, you can always use some profiles or a super
pom to manage more cleanly big dependencies (with a lot of optionnal
transitives dependencies). This is how I do for Spring and Hibernate.
On 5/22/06, Wim Deblauwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know it does, but it does not support "configurations" of dependencies
> like I believe Ivy does. If you have a project X that can either depend on Y
> or Z depending on what you like, you would need to declare both dependencies
> optional in Maven altough it will not work if you omit both. You need to
> choose between Y or Z. This cannot be easily expressed with Maven2.
>
> regards,
>
> Wim
>
> 2006/5/22, Geoffrey De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > Maven 2 supports optional dependencies.
> >
> > You can even exclude non-optional transitive dependencies.
> >
> > Wim Deblauwe wrote:
> > > Interesting, thanks for the link.
> > >
> > > The only thing that is really helpful in Ivy when looking at this page
> > is
> > > the fact that you can choose between optional dependencies. I think
> > Maven
> > > could use such a concept too.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Wim
> > >
> > > 2006/5/22, Jeff Mutonho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >>
> > >> On 5/22/06, Wim Deblauwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I really love Maven, but people in my organisation seem to have
> > noticed
> > >> Ivy.
> > >> > I have not used Ivy, but I really like those nice screenshots. Are
> > >> there
> > >> any
> > >> > things Ivy does that Maven2 currently can't do? One thing I see is
> > the
> > >> nice
> > >> > depencency graph (but hopefully someone will code that during the
> > >> Google
> > >> > Summer of Code:)).
> > >> >
> > >> > Any more thoughts on this?
> > >> >
> > >> > regards,
> > >> >
> > >> > Wim
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Could http://jayasoft.org/ivy/doc/m2comparison be of any help ?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Jeff Mutonho
> > >>
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