If EXTENDED depends on BASIC, then your POM user should only declare EXTENDED as a dependency and not BASIC.
Jeff MAURY On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Martin Kacer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am wondering whether it is possible to specify that some existing JAR > version will NOT work with my artifact (library), though it is not my > own dependency. > > Let me illustrate the problem by a very simplified example: > We have two libraries, both managed by Maven: Library 1 is called BASIC and > provides some common utilities used in many other projects. > Library 2 is called EXTENDED and it depends on BASIC because it uses > those utilities. > > Both libraries exist in many versions: 1.0, 1.1, etc. In a repository, > we have various jar artifacts (such as BASIC-1.4.jar, EXTENDED-1.2.jar > etc.) and also POM files specifying dependencies between them. For example, > EXTENDED-1.2.pom defines a dependency on artifactId="BASIC", > version="[1.0,)". > > After some time, I decide to release a new version of BASIC, numbered 2.0. > Unfortunately, there is an incompatible change in the library API that will > cause the EXTENDED library version 1.x to stop working. Therefore, > I also have to release a new version of EXTENDED: EXTENDED-2.0.jar. > > Is there some way to specify that BASIC-2.0 will _not_ work with EXTENDED > version < 2.0? In other words, I want to prevent top projects from declaring > something like: > > > <dependency><artifactId>BASIC</artifactId><version>2.0</version></dependency> > > <dependency><artifactId>EXTENDED</artifactId><version>1.2</version></dependency> > > Of course, the conflict could be specified in the POM of EXTENDED 1.2. > But it was not known in the time of 1.2 release yet. > > > Sorry if I overlooked something, but I was not able to find this in the > Maven documentation and it is a crucial feature for me. > > Thanks for any help... > Martin Kacer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- La mélancolie c'est communiste Tout le monde y a droit de temps en temps La mélancolie n'est pas capitaliste C'est même gratuit pour les perdants La mélancolie c'est pacifiste On ne lui rentre jamais dedans La mélancolie oh tu sais ça existe Elle se prend même avec des gants La mélancolie c'est pour les syndicalistes Il faut juste sa carte de permanent Miossec (2006) http://www.jeffmaury.com http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com http://www.lastfm.fr/listen/user/jeffmaury/personal Mes CDs à récupérer: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pNeg4Doa_oCsh7CepKPaPTA&hl=en
