On 10/05/2008, at 9:38 AM, Brianefox wrote:
Provided means to include in the compile do but not in the package (war) Optional means that it wont be pulled in transitively by users of your jar
From this, I gather Optional is actually what we want. Would it be fair to say that Optional is a sort of extension to provided. Whereas Provided indicates that it is actually needed downstream, but the downstream projects need to arrange their own bundling of it. A dependency marked as Provided still indicates to the downstream project that they need it to run it.
Would you agree that Optional is what we want for log4j? cheers, Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
