Daniel, Could you please summarize the "difficulties"/"inconvenience" in the current status quo?
thanks, dims On 3/15/07, Daniel Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2007 11:12, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > > Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > > My personal opinion is that an "incubator" in the groupId or > > > > artifactId would be more than sufficient to mark the Incubator > > > > status > > > > The version attribute is more appropriate IMO, and what was agreed > > upon in an earlier thread on this list. > > As I understand it, so please correct me if I am wrong, if I download > a program that builds using Maven, and it has dependencies in its > pom.xml on Incubator artifiacts, then if Incubator artifacts are > conflated with ASF artifacts, then when I built the program, it will > automatically download the Incubator artifacts from the repository > without my being aware of the dependency. However, if the Incubator > artifacts are segregated into a separate repository, then Maven will > not download them until I, the downstream user, add that repository to > Maven. Is that correct or incorrect? Semi correct. If my project directly depends on incubator artifacts, I would need to put the incubator repository in my pom. However, if I depend on another project that depends on incubator artifacts, I wouldn't because most likely, their poms have a repository entry for the incubator. As an example. Let's say I am writing a project that depends on geronimo 1.2-beta. Geronimo 1.2-beta depends on several incubator artifacts (yoko, openejb, some active mq stuff, etc..). The geronimo pom defines the incubator repository. Thus, anything from the incubator that it needs will automatically be grabbed without me knowing about it. The only time a user is forced to acknowledge it by defining the incubator repository is if they take a DIRECT dependency. -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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