Interesting weblog Carlos, thank you for that. You should add that info to the maven docs if it is not already there.
regards, Wim 2006/5/22, Carlos Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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 > > > >> > > > >> GoogleTalk : ejbengine > > > >> Skype : ejbengine > > > >> Registered Linux user number 366042 > > > >> > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > With kind regards, > > > Geoffrey De Smet > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- I could give you my word as a Spaniard. No good. I've known too many Spaniards. -- The Princess Bride --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
