Yes, this is something we always should have had... I think it is in the
2.1 wiki, but worth adding if not!
- Brett
On 12/07/2006 9:48 PM, Arnaud HERITIER wrote:
Hi guys,
Yesterday, during the explanation of the roadmap of maven 2.1 in the
meeting "Maven day", Jason said that a new setting will be supported to
exclude all the transitive dependencies.
I had effectively see numerous users that were complaining about the big
exclusion list they have to maintain which is as annoying as in m1 for the
list of all the dependencies.
My question : Is there someone who proposed to add a list of profiles (We
can use this term because we already use it in m2 but I don't have another
idea today) in a dependency.
For example for a complex librairie like Spring we can ask them to create
as many POM as they have usecases of this library. But it will be difficult
to maintain.
Or we could do something like :
In the POM of MyHorribleProjectWithALotOfOptionalDependencies
<project>
...
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>grp-A</groupId>
<artifactId>lib-A</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
<profiles>
<profile>profile-1</profile>
</profiles>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>grp-B</groupId>
<artifactId>lib-B</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
<profiles>
<profile>profile-2</profile>
</profiles>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>grp-C</groupId>
<artifactId>lib-C</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
<profiles>
<profile>profile-1</profile>
<profile>profile-2</profile>
</profiles>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>grp-D</groupId>
<artifactId>lib-D</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
...
</project>
It's something more fine than the optional element.
In the POM of my project which uses this framework, I can use the
dependency
without profile :
<dependency>
<groupId>MyHorribleProjectWithALotOfOptionalDependencies</groupId>
<artifactId>MyHorribleProjectWithALotOfOptionalDependencies</artifactId>
</dependency>
To get all the dependencies.
I can use the profile-1
<dependency>
<groupId>MyHorribleProjectWithALotOfOptionalDependencies</groupId>
<artifactId>MyHorribleProjectWithALotOfOptionalDependencies</artifactId>
<profile>profile-1</profile>
</dependency>
To get lib-A, lib-C, lib-D
I can use the profile-2 to get lib-B, lib-C, lib-D
...
WDYT ?
Arnaud
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