Could some explain the difference between the dependency scope
"provided" versus "optional" if there actually is any..
We have converted log4j over to Maven recently and accidently forgot
to mark a few dependencies with flags indicating that, while needing
for compile time, should not necessarily be enforced on the end user.
I refer people to this issue:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43304
I originally used 'optional' because I saw this being used in the
ActiveMQ project, but now I can't find any real definitive reference
to what that means.
I've read:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
and that makes no mention of the 'optional' scope type. Is it a
legacy marker?
If someone could provide advice here I would appreciate it.
cheers,
Paul
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