Clarify the addition of dependancies in assembly:assembly
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Key: MASSEMBLY-135
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-135
Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.1
Environment: n/a
Reporter: Gwyn Evans
It was unclear to me for quite a while that the assembly plugin could pack
dependancies The documentation suggested that it should, by default, do so,
but when trying wth the built-in "bin" descriptor, nothing happened. I worked
around it for a while by having the dependancy plugin copy the jars into my
target folder, until I came back to it today.
What I found was that if I took the built-in 'bin', created my own[1] and
simply added
<dependencySets>
<dependencySet>
</dependencySet>
</dependencySets>
then I got the behaviour I wanted.
I'd suggest two changes - (1) some comment (in the descriptor format
description) about how dependancies are not included without the above and (2)
an additional pre-defined descriptior, e.g. "bin-with-dependancies", as that
seems to be a common requirement, judging from the M2 mailing list.
/Gwyn
[1] By the way, I couldn't find any documentation that explained the correct
syntax for this -
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/howto.html just uses
<descriptor> &
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly-mojo.html
mentions <descriptors> be only by trial & error do you find what it should
contain (OK, convention suggests it would <descriptor>, but the description
said files, which I first read as the filepath & <descriptor> was marked as
depreciated. )
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