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new 79d956f On branch edburns-cognitive-tax-nit-01 Don't make me think:
use graphic in addition to text. modified:
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commit 79d956f6a06be8dfb4be37ba8c0779709c73d522
Author: Ed Burns <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Jul 24 17:45:10 2020 -0400
On branch edburns-cognitive-tax-nit-01 Don't make me think: use graphic in
addition to text.
modified:
content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
- When reading "A, B, and C are defined as A -> B -> C -> D 2.0 and A ->
E -> D 1.0, then D 1.0 will b" my eyes glazed over. I added a graphic
to supplement the existing text.
On branch edburns-cognitive-tax-nit-01 Make the ascii graph not have line
numbers.
modified:
content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
Mention dependency:tree
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1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git
a/content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
b/content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
index c570964..1c0167a 100644
--- a/content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
+++ b/content/apt/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.apt
@@ -75,10 +75,31 @@ Introduction to the Dependency Mechanism
Note that if two dependency versions are at the same depth in the
dependency tree,
the first declaration wins.
- * "nearest definition" means that the version used will be the closest
one to your project in the tree of dependencies.
- For example, if dependencies for A, B, and C are defined as A -> B ->
C -> D 2.0 and A -> E -> D 1.0,
+ * "nearest definition" means that the version used will be the closest
one to your project in the tree of dependencies. Consider this tree of
dependencies:
+
+----
+ A
+ ├── B
+ │ └── C
+ │ └── D 2.0
+ └── E
+ └── D 1.0
+----
+
+ In text, dependencies for A, B, and C are defined as A -> B -> C -> D
2.0 and A -> E -> D 1.0,
then D 1.0 will be used when building A because the path from A to D
through E is shorter.
- You could explicitly add a dependency to D 2.0 in A to force the use
of D 2.0.
+ You could explicitly add a dependency to D 2.0 in A to force the use
of D 2.0, as shown here:
+
+----
+ A
+ ├── B
+ │ └── C
+ │ └── D 2.0
+ ├── E
+ │ └── D 1.0
+ │
+ └── D 2.0
+----
* <Dependency management>
- this allows project authors to directly specify the versions of artifacts
to be used when they are encountered
@@ -114,7 +135,7 @@ Introduction to the Dependency Mechanism
updates/removes its dependency on project C.
Another reason to directly specify dependencies is that it provides better
- documentation for your project: one can learn more information by just
reading the POM file in your project.
+ documentation for your project: one can learn more information by just
reading the POM file in your project, or by executing <<mvn dependency:tree>>.
Maven also
provides
{{{/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.html}dependency:analyze}}
plugin goal
