Optional is meant if you have several dependencies that you need to compile, but that a user of your jar might only need one of (think oracle vs mssql bindings).
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:42 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Dependency scope - provided or optional.. ? 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
