Hi Brett, Thanks. I didn't find it. I added my mail in this page : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Profiles+for+optional+dependencies I'll improve it ASAP.
Arnaud On 7/18/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 > -- Apache Maven - http://maven.apache.org/ Better Builds with Maven - http://library.mergere.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
