Hi Martin, there are still processors which are runtime jars, would you make them declared twice and deduplicated by maven for relevant phases/scopes?
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://x.com/rmannibucau> | .NET Blog <https://dotnetbirdie.github.io/> | Blog <https://rmannibucau.github.io/> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book <https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/java-ee-8-high-performance-9781788473064> Le mar. 4 févr. 2025 à 14:58, Martin Desruisseaux < martin.desruisse...@geomatys.com> a écrit : > Hello all > > Maven 4 introduced some new types of JAR, including: > > * jar (same as Maven 3) > * modular-jar > * classpath-jar > * processor > * classpath-processor > * modular-processor > > It has been pointed out (in a discussion elsewhere about JPMS) that > declaring that a JAR is for use by the annotation processor (or doclet, > taglet, etc.) is closer to the definition of a scope. It think that it > is a good point. Should we remove the types listed below and replace > them by the following (type, scope) pairs? > > <type>processor</type> replaced by: > > <type>jar</type> > <scope>processor</scope> > > <type>classpath-processor</type> replaced by: > > <type>classpath-jar</type> > <scope>processor</scope> > > <type>modular-processor</type> replaced by: > > <type>modular-jar</type> > <scope>processor</scope> > > Same for doclet, taglet, etc. Therefore, "classpath-jar" and > "modular-jar" would be the only new types relative to JPMS, and new > scopes "processor", "doclet" and "taglet" would be added in addition of > "main" and "test". It would reduce the total number of types/scopes (no > need to repeat "processor" for each variant of classpath versus > module-path) and could be related to the new <source> element recently > added to the Maven 4. It could also, in a future evolution, fit nicely > with the closely-related <scope> element of the recently added <source> > element (the latter would be a separated discussion). > > Martin > >
