Thanks Jake. I wasn't suggesting you move away from the GUI, I just wasn't aware that you couldn't lauch a GUI from a Maven plugin. It would just be nice for something like this to be part of the dependency plugin. mvn dependency:resolve is great, mvn dependency:resolve-gui would be even better.
----- Original message ----- From: "jake pezaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:38:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Dependency Browser Tool there are a couple of reasons why this is not a maven plugin. 1. we found it much easier to understand the dependency tree when it was displayed in a GUI (ie being able open and close branches, see paths being highlighted etc). if this were to be a plugin it would need to display text output, which we couldn't make as easy to understand (although if you have any ideas here then please send me an example). 2. maven reactor already provides a more static version of this information in it's convergence reports. we didn't want to replicate that functionality, we just wanted a simple tool to track down rouge transitive dependencies. Martin Gilday wrote: > > Is there any reason this isn't a Maven plugin though? --repository could > be taken from settings.xml > --workspace could just be the current directory where you run mvn xx:xx. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dependency-Browser-Tool-tf4870799s177.html#a13940274 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
